56 Ash Road, Birmingham, B8 1DJ

56 Ash Road is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Birmingham (B8 1DJ). It has a recorded floor area of 135 m² (around 1453 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2016) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a basement and a loft.

Held since May 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £188,000 sits 370% above the 1995 sale of £40,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£28/sq ft) was about 67.8% below the postcode norm. At 135 m² it's 26.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (107 m² median across 25 EPCs). 4 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 2 is the typical count.