12 Cathcart Road is a semi-detached house in Stourbridge (DY8 3UZ). It has a recorded floor area of 132 m² (around 1421 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows a D (score 57), a step below the typical UK home. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 79).
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.2% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £391,000 is 34.8% above the 2021 sale price. At 132 m² the property is well over the postcode median (53 m² across 21 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2001. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £290,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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12 Cathcart Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
12 Cathcart Road has an approved single-storey rear extension on the planning record.
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Sale price has grown by over 3x since 1998.
£391,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.2% per year over 23 years.
£290,000
Growth on file: 5.2% per year over 23 years.
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What we flagged
12 Cathcart Road outperforms the street on habitable rooms by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£2,197
Street avg £2,752
Floor Area
132 m²
Street avg 124 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 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
1.1 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
51.3dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
GROUND FLOOR REAR EXTENSION TO PROVIDE EXTENDED LIVING
12 February 2021Most recent
£290,000
+152.2%over 21 years12 November 1999
£115,000
+26.4%over 1 year24 April 1998
£91,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in DY8 3UZ: £365,000 (2024–2019).

Street avg 5 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.8 t/year
Street avg 6.3 t/year
DY8 3PS
Stourbridge Town Rail Station — railway station.
Closest school
0.6 km
Greenfield Primary School. 20 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
41.8dB