3 Laundry Road, Smethwick, B66 4PR

3 Laundry Road is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Smethwick (B66 4PR). It has a recorded floor area of 131 m² (around 1410 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (May 2014) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since March 2013. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Poor to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Our model identifies extension potential, subject to local planning policy.

At 131 m² the property is well over the postcode median (63 m² across 37 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Across 2001–2013, sale prices on this property compounded at 8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £163,000 sits 105% above the 2013 sale of £79,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£56/sq ft) was about 31.7% below the postcode norm. On the market in October 2013 and unlisted since — roughly 13 years.