68a, Rea Valley Drive, Birmingham, B31 3XE

68a is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Birmingham (B31 3XE). It has a recorded floor area of 53 m² (around 570 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (March 2025) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 5 certificates since June 2014. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74). It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility. At 53 m² this is the 20th smallest of 23 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 36–130 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C across 23 units on file.

It hasn't traded since December 2006, a hold of 19 years that's notably long for the area. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. Sale prices here have outpaced Birmingham HPI: 9.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £127,000 is 21% above the 2006 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£184/sq ft) was about 22.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 53 m² the property is well over the postcode median (39 m² across 22 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock.