17 Alwen Street is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Stourbridge (DY8 5YP). It has a recorded floor area of 81 m² (around 872 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (May 2015) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from May 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a basement. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £207,000 is 21.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£196/sq ft) was about 49.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £171,000 in November 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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17 Alwen Street sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 06 May 2025
17 Alwen Street has no planning applications on record.
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17 Alwen Street has more than quadrupled in price since its earliest registered sale in 1995.
£207,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 6.8% per year over 27 years.
£171,000
Growth on file: 6.8% per year over 27 years.
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On epc rating, 17 Alwen Street runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£2,111
Street avg £1,779
Floor Area
81 m²
Street avg 88 m²
Habitable Rooms
5 rooms
Street avg 5 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
1.6 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
51.9dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
10 November 2021Most recent
£171,000
+26.2%over 6 years17 September 2015
£135,500
+3.5%over 7 years10 December 2007
£130,950
+15.9%over 2 years5 April 2005
£112,950
+276.5%over 9 years13 April 1995
£30,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in DY8 5YP: £193,000 (2025–2023).

CO₂ Emissions
6.9 t/year
Street avg 4.9 t/year
DY8 5BP
Frairs Gorse — bus stop.
Closest school
0.5 km
Brook Primary School. 32 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
42.2dB