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Get started85 Vicarage Road is a semi-detached house in West Bromwich (B71 1AJ). It has a recorded floor area of 66 m² (around 710 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2020) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.
On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Sale prices here have lagged England HPI: -2.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £215,000 sits 53.6% above the 2021 sale of £140,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£197/sq ft) was about 22.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: January 2021 at £140,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
85 Vicarage Road sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
85 Vicarage Road changed hands twice within eighteen months — unusual for the area.
£215,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of -2.8% per year over 1 year.
£140,000
Growth on file: -2.8% per year over 1 year.
Price per m² for 85 Vicarage Road runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£2,121
Street avg £1,407
Floor Area
66 m²
Street avg 77 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Crime
7/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.4 km
Black Lake (West Midlands Metro) — subway entrance.
28 January 2021Most recent
£140,000
-2.8%18 November 2020
£144,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in B71 1AJ: £106,000 (2019–1999).
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.5 t/year
Street avg 3.6 t/year
Closest school
0.2 km
St Mary Magdalene CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School. 28 schools nearby.
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