8 Caroline Street, West Bromwich, B70 8LB

8 Caroline Street is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in West Bromwich (B70 8LB). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 2-band jump.

Held since May 2005 — that's 21 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 19.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £148,000 sits 77.2% above the 2005 sale of £83,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£109/sq ft) was about 40.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 71 m² it's 15.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (84 m² median across 7 EPCs).