18 Pine Grove, Lickey, Birmingham, B45 8HE

18 Pine Grove is a four-bedroom detached house in Lickey, Birmingham, Birmingham (B45 8HE). It has a recorded floor area of 173 m² (around 1862 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2020) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since September 2020. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Average to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump.

Sale prices here have outpaced Birmingham HPI: 5.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£301/sq ft) was about 18.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 173 m² the property is well over the postcode median (111 m² across 18 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2012. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold June 2022 for £560,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.