5 Mendip Avenue, Birmingham, B8 3JW

5 Mendip Avenue is a mid-terrace house in Birmingham (B8 3JW). It has a recorded floor area of 77 m² (around 829 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (August 2016) shows an E (score 51), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since July 2016. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 3-band jump.

Held since July 2000 — that's 26 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. At 77 m² it's 23.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (63 m² median across 8 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £161,000 sits 455.2% above the 2000 sale of £29,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£35/sq ft) was about 71.7% below the postcode norm.