31 Oaklands Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 0DS

31 Oaklands Road is a semi-detached house in Wolverhampton (WV3 0DS). It has a recorded floor area of 219 m² (around 2357 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (June 2016) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (May 2010); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and hot-water efficiency dropped from Very Good to Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump.

Across 2010–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 11% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £255,000 is 45.7% below the 2021 sale of £470,000, an unusual pattern given regional price growth and worth checking against the EPC condition. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£199/sq ft) was about 118.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 219 m² the property is well over the postcode median (55 m² across 64 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). 2 planning records sit against the property, 2 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and change of use to residential, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold November 2021 for £470,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.