2 Kingswood Close, Lapworth, Solihull, B94 6JQ

2 Kingswood Close is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Lapworth, Solihull, Solihull (B94 6JQ). It has a recorded floor area of 133 m² (around 1432 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows an F (score 33), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Earlier certificates rated it E (March 2011); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 65), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 133 m² it's 15.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (116 m² median across 20 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. 3 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2007–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£476/sq ft) was about 105% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £681,000 in November 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.