144 Hundred Acre Road, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2BH

144 Hundred Acre Road is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Sutton Coldfield (B74 2BH). It has a recorded floor area of 97 m² (around 1044 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since October 2011. Between certificates, lighting dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 82), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 2007 — that's 18 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £292,000 sits 56.1% above the 2007 sale of £187,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£179/sq ft) was about 23.2% below the postcode norm.