3 Besford Grove, Shirley, Solihull, B90 4YU

3 Besford Grove is a detached house in Shirley, Solihull, Solihull (B90 4YU). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (August 2015) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from August 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 28 years, with the last transfer in April 1998. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 128 m² it's 19.5% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (159 m² median across 7 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £568,000 sits 234.2% above the 1998 sale of £169,950. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£123/sq ft) was about 52% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2007. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.