480 Sutton Road, Walsall, WS5 3AZ

480 Sutton Road is a five-bedroom detached house in Walsall (WS5 3AZ). It has a recorded floor area of 274 m² (around 2949 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (March 2021) shows a C (score 75), near the top of the C band. When first surveyed in August 2009 the rating was E, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to B (score 81). Other recorded features include outbuildings. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 274 m² the property is well over the postcode median (149 m² across 15 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 87% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Sold September 2021 for £640,000. 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. 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a loft conversion, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2000–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 7.2% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £760,000 is 18.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£217/sq ft) was about 28.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.