5 Brabham Crescent, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2BN

5 Brabham Crescent is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Sutton Coldfield (B74 2BN). It has a recorded floor area of 106 m² (around 1139 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2010) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2010, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

It hasn't traded since May 2001, a hold of 25 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 106 m² it's 18.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (89 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £322,000 sits 195.4% above the 2001 sale of £109,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£96/sq ft) was about 57% below the postcode norm.