7 Darnford Close, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1YU

7 Darnford Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Sutton Coldfield (B72 1YU). It has a recorded floor area of 116 m² (around 1249 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (April 2014) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since February 2012. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 116 m² it's 26.1% larger than the typical home in the postcode (92 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £342,000 in February 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1997–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £403,000 is 17.8% above the 2021 sale price.