139 St Margarets Road, Ward End, Birmingham, B8 2BD

139 St Margarets Road is a three-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Ward End, Birmingham, Birmingham (B8 2BD). It has a recorded floor area of 97 m² (around 1044 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (January 2014) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since July 2012. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since December 1998 — that's 27 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have lagged Birmingham HPI: -8.3% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £194,000 sits 525.8% above the 1998 sale of £31,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£30/sq ft) was about 60.9% below the postcode norm. At 97 m² it's 26.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (77 m² median across 18 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 83% of similar EPCs).