23 Brook Street is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Stourbridge (DY8 3XF). It has a recorded floor area of 63 m² (around 678 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (October 2020) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £245,000 is 33.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£270/sq ft) was about 43.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 63 m² it sits well below the postcode median (93 m² across 29 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 79% of similar EPCs). Sold May 2021 for £183,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Recommended upgrades on file would lift this property by multiple EPC bands.
23 Brook Street has no planning applications on record.
Notable planning nearby
2applications of note in the surrounding area
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23 Brook Street has more than tripled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1997.
£245,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.6% per year over 24 years.
£183,000
Growth on file: 5.6% per year over 24 years.
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23 Brook Street is notably below the street on floor area.
Price per m²
£2,905
Street avg £2,500
Floor Area
63 m²
Street avg 102 m²
Habitable Rooms
4 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
Rail-style transport is unusually close for this postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Rising year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.9 km
Stourbridge Town Rail Station — railway station.

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
52.9dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
21 May 2021Most recent
£183,000
+28.4%over 14 years4 August 2006
£142,500
+64.7%over 3 years5 November 2002
£86,500
+74.7%over 5 years25 July 1997
£49,500
Median price across the last 5 sales in DY8 3XF: £300,000 (2025–2024).

CO₂ Emissions
4.1 t/year
Street avg 4.9 t/year
DY8 3PY
Closest school
0.4 km
Greenfield Primary School. 22 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
43.5dB