42 Elmwood Road, Sutton Coldfield, B74 2DF

42 Elmwood Road is a semi-detached house in Sutton Coldfield (B74 2DF). It has a recorded floor area of 116 m² (around 1249 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (May 2014) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (April 2009); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Good to Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Most recent transfer: January 2022 at £370,000. Across the public record there are 5 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. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2001. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 116 m² it's 22% larger than the typical home in the postcode (95 m² median across 12 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). Across 1999–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£296/sq ft) was about 43.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode.