2 Mandeville Gardens, Walsall, WS1 3AT

2 Mandeville Gardens is a four-bedroom detached house in Walsall (WS1 3AT). It has a recorded floor area of 154 m² (around 1658 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (September 2016) shows an F (score 35), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 67), a 2-band jump. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

It hasn't traded since April 1996, a hold of 30 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 154 m² the property is well over the postcode median (112 m² across 11 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £403,000 sits 315.5% above the 1996 sale of £97,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£59/sq ft) was about 67.6% below the postcode norm. 5 planning records sit against the property, 5 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension, a garage conversion and tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.