53 Douglas Avenue, Birmingham, B36 8EN
About 53 Douglas Avenue
53 Douglas Avenue is a six-bedroom detached house in Birmingham (B36 8EN). It has a recorded floor area of 211 m² (around 2271 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows a D (score 56), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 77). The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
At 211 m² the property is well over the postcode median (115 m² across 41 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. 6 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 1998–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£214/sq ft) was about 53.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: August 2022 at £485,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
What this property has
Inside
- Bedrooms6
- Bathrooms3
Energy performance
53 Douglas Avenue's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Expired
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 21 Jan 2024
EPC Rating
Planning history
53 Douglas Avenue has been extended on multiple sides of the property across separate planning applications.
- Mar 2013ExtensionFullIn report
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Erection of single storey side extension
- Council
- Hodge Hill
- Reference
- 2013/00246/PA
- Nov 2011ExtensionFullIn report
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Erection of single storey side extension
- Council
- Hodge Hill
- Reference
- 2011/06306/PA
What's in 53 Douglas Avenue, Birmingham, B36 8EN's planning history?
1 more on this property, plus refusals, disputes and full decisions nearby, in the report.
Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on 53 Douglas Avenue was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£496,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 7.2% per year over 24 years.
£485,000
Growth on file: 7.2% per year over 24 years.
Sales timeline
29 August 2022Most recent
£485,000
+125.6%over 18 years7 September 2003
£215,000
+135.0%over 5 years30 July 1998
£91,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in B36 8EN: £317,500 (2024–2022).
Nearby sales in B36 8EN
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Versus other Douglas Avenue homes
53 Douglas Avenue outperforms the street on floor area by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,299
Street avg £1,859
Floor Area
211 m²
Street avg 131 m²
Habitable Rooms
9 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
9.7 t/year
Street avg 6.1 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Reported crime in the wider district is trending notably upward year-on-year.
Crime
5/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.4 km
Stechford Rail Station — railway station.
Closest school
0.5 km
Hodge Hill Primary School. 47 schools nearby.
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