47a, Foregate Street, Astwood Bank, Redditch, B96 6BW

47a is a three-bedroom detached house in Astwood Bank, Redditch, Redditch (B96 6BW). It has a recorded floor area of 104 m² (around 1119 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (August 2025) shows a D (score 64), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 73).

Held since March 2001 — that's 25 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 104 m² the property is well over the postcode median (54 m² across 52 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2000–2001, sale prices here grew 0.4% per year, broadly in step with Redditch's 0% HPI growth. Today's modelled estimate of £452,000 sits 234.8% above the 2001 sale of £135,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£121/sq ft) was about 18.9% below the postcode norm.