7 Durham Drive, West Bromwich, B71 1HS

7 Durham Drive is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in West Bromwich (B71 1HS). It has a recorded floor area of 112 m² (around 1206 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2014) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. The home occupies a corner plot.

Held since April 2006 — that's 20 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 13.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £242,000 sits 76.6% above the 2006 sale of £137,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£114/sq ft) was about 15.5% below the postcode norm. At 112 m² the property is well over the postcode median (80 m² across 14 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.