17 Fairways Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in Stourbridge (DY8 2RN). It has a recorded floor area of 121 m² (around 1302 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.
It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 70% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £535,000 is 39% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£296/sq ft) was about 30.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold April 2021 for £385,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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17 Fairways Avenue's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
17 Fairways Avenue has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
1applications of note in the surrounding area
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The latest sale landed in the post-pandemic price surge — useful context when reading the figure.
£535,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables.
£385,000
Recorded with HM Land Registry.
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What we flagged
17 Fairways Avenue is notably below the street on epc rating.
Price per m²
£3,182
Street avg £2,880
Floor Area
121 m²
Street avg 128 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
Reported crime in the wider district is trending notably upward year-on-year.
Crime
3/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
1.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.0dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
13 April 2021Most recent
£385,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in DY8 2RN: £376,000 (2023–2020).

CO₂ Emissions
8.8 t/year
Street avg 6.1 t/year
DY8 2LN
Crown Inn — bus stop.
Closest school
0.7 km
St Joseph's RC Primary School. 20 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
39.9dB