161a, Penn Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 0ED

161a is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Wolverhampton (WV3 0ED). It has a recorded floor area of 80 m² (around 861 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (July 2014) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from July 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since June 2004 — that's 22 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 80 m² the property is well over the postcode median (59 m² across 27 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 74% of similar EPCs). Across 1998–2004, sale prices on this property compounded at 16.7% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£135/sq ft) was about 29.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode.