7 Brook Road, Rubery, Rednal, Birmingham, B45 9UH

7 Brook Road is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Rednal, Birmingham, Birmingham (B45 9UH). It has a recorded floor area of 88 m² (around 947 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (September 2024) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since September 2014. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump.

Held since November 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 88 m² the property is well over the postcode median (59 m² across 22 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. Across 2001–2004, sale prices on this property compounded at 18% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £182,000 sits 70.1% above the 2004 sale of £107,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£113/sq ft) was about 24.4% below the postcode norm.