23 Featherstone Crescent, Shirley, Solihull, B90 3RH

23 Featherstone Crescent is a semi-detached house in Shirley, Solihull, Solihull (B90 3RH). It has a recorded floor area of 149 m² (around 1604 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (January 2015) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since March 1997 — that's 29 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 149 m² the property is well over the postcode median (100 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 85% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £416,000 sits 347.3% above the 1997 sale of £93,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£58/sq ft) was about 71.8% below the postcode norm.