48 Vicarage Road, West Bromwich, B71 1AQ

48 Vicarage Road is a semi-detached house in West Bromwich (B71 1AQ). It has a recorded floor area of 134 m² (around 1442 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2015) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (January 2014); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 4-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. One planning application is currently pending a decision in 2021. At 134 m² the property is well over the postcode median (99 m² across 4 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. Today's modelled estimate of £277,000 is 49.7% above the 2004 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£128/sq ft) was about 65.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode.