26 Gladstone Road, Dorridge, Solihull, B93 8BX

26 Gladstone Road is a four-bedroom detached house in Dorridge, Solihull, Solihull (B93 8BX). It has a recorded floor area of 128 m² (around 1378 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (January 2016) shows an E (score 43), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 77), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from January 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. It has already been extended once and our model flags further extension potential, a sign of buyer flexibility.

Sale prices here have outpaced Solihull HPI: 0.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £899,000 is 24.7% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£523/sq ft) was about 55.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 128 m² it sits well below the postcode median (204 m² across 7 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 71% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2020. Past consents include an extension, new windows and partial demolition, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: November 2019 at £721,000.