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

159 St Margarets Road is a mid-terrace house in Ward End, Birmingham, Birmingham (B8 2BD). It has a recorded floor area of 83 m² (around 893 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an F (score 26), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 85), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Held since March 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Sale prices here have outpaced Birmingham HPI: 10.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £152,000 sits 253.5% above the 2002 sale of £43,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£48/sq ft) was about 39.5% below the postcode norm. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement.