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Get started18 Far Highfield is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Sutton Coldfield (B76 1BP). It has a recorded floor area of 49 m² (around 527 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2021) shows a D (score 67), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. Earlier certificates rated it C (September 2011); the latest reading is one band lower. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 89), a 2-band jump.
Held since March 1999 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £263,000 sits 255.4% above the 1999 sale of £74,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£140/sq ft) was about 44.2% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2003. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 49 m² it's 16.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (59 m² median across 14 EPCs).
Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
18 Far Highfield has an approved single-storey side extension on the planning record.
Extension: Single storey · Side of property
Erection of single storey side extension
18 Far Highfield's modelled value sits at over four times its earliest registered sale price (1995).
£263,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.0% per year over 3 years.
£74,000
Growth on file: 5.0% per year over 3 years.
Years Held for 18 Far Highfield runs comfortably ahead of the street norm.
Price per m²
£1,510
Street avg £3,144
Floor Area
49 m²
Street avg 64 m²
Habitable Rooms
3 rooms
Crime
5/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.3 km
Sutton Coldfield Rail Station — railway station.
15 March 1999Most recent
£74,000
+18.4%over 3 years29 September 1995
£62,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in B76 1BP: £284,000 (2024–2018).
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
2.3 t/year
Street avg 2.9 t/year
B76 1TL
Closest school
0.6 km
Town Junior School. 23 schools nearby.
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