4 Alder Close, Sutton Coldfield, B76 1LW

4 Alder Close is a four-bedroom detached house in Sutton Coldfield (B76 1LW). It has a recorded floor area of 133 m² (around 1430 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (September 2009) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 67), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from September 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 29 years, with the last transfer in November 1996. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £510,000 sits 363.6% above the 1996 sale of £110,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£77/sq ft) was about 63% below the postcode norm.