23 Colonial Road, Birmingham, B9 5NR

23 Colonial Road is a mid-terrace house in Birmingham (B9 5NR). It has a recorded floor area of 105 m² (around 1130 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (December 2013) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from December 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 1999 — that's 27 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 105 m² it's 18% larger than the typical home in the postcode (89 m² median across 33 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £181,000 sits 364.1% above the 1999 sale of £39,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£35/sq ft) was about 63.2% below the postcode norm.