13 Essex Avenue, West Bromwich, B71 1HU

13 Essex Avenue is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in West Bromwich (B71 1HU). It has a recorded floor area of 124 m² (around 1335 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (February 2016) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in June 2010 the rating was G, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and main heating went from Very Poor to Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 124 m² the property is well over the postcode median (88 m² across 25 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 £184,000 sits 87.8% above the 2004 sale of £98,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£73/sq ft) was about 51.1% below the postcode norm.