1 Poplar Drive, Barnt Green, Birmingham, B45 8NQ

1 Poplar Drive is a four-bedroom detached house in Barnt Green, Birmingham, Birmingham (B45 8NQ). It has a recorded floor area of 98 m² (around 1055 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (October 2013) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

5 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 98 m² it's 20.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (123 m² median across 7 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £543,000 is 10.3% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£467/sq ft) was about 27.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: May 2022 at £492,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.