3 Malvern Gardens is a detached house in Hagley, Stourbridge, Stourbridge (DY8 2XU). It has a recorded floor area of 166 m² (around 1787 sq ft) and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2014) returns a B (score 84), comfortably above the UK average. The latest certificate is from January 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 9.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £524,000 is 10.3% above the 2020 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£266/sq ft) was about 24.2% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2017. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 166 m² it's 21.7% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (212 m² median across 9 EPCs). Most recent transfer: February 2020 at £475,000.
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3 Malvern Gardens's EPC is over a decade old — improvements since won't be reflected.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 24 Jan 2024
3 Malvern Gardens has an approved single-storey rear extension on the planning record.
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£524,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 9.8% per year over 6 years.
£475,000
Growth on file: 9.8% per year over 6 years.
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What we flagged
Floor Area for 3 Malvern Gardens lags the street by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,861
Street avg £2,439
Floor Area
166 m²
Street avg 220 m²
CO₂ Emissions
2.5 t/year
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.6 km
Haybridge High School — bus stop.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.6dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Proposed single storey rear extension
21 February 2020Most recent
£475,000
+72.7%over 5 years23 April 2014
£275,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in DY8 2XU: £565,000 (2020–2017).

Street avg 3.7 t/year
Years Held
6 years
Street avg 9 years
DY8 2LN
Closest school
0.4 km
Hagley Catholic High School. 7 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.2dB