16 Canute Close, Walsall, WS1 3JL

16 Canute Close is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Walsall (WS1 3JL). It has a recorded floor area of 61 m² (around 657 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. At 61 m² this is the 18th smallest of 30 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 51–74 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to C, with this unit at the bottom. The latest certificate (September 2025) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (March 2012); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good; while window efficiency dropped from Average to Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 75), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £96,000 in March 2021. 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. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2001. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2013–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £123,000 is 28.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£146/sq ft) was about 73.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode.