3 Ford Street, Birmingham B18 5PL

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1950-1966 · 97 m² · Rented (Private) · Warm air, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £8,620 · £4,310 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£120£1360.9 yrs+5.2 pts
Flat roof insulation£1,500 – £500£1238.1 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,500 – £500£15020.0 yrs+5.8 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£12523.9 yrs+4.8 pts
Warm air unit replacement£2,500 – £500£5726.2 yrs+2.2 pts · reaches B
Double glazing(optional, beyond B)£6,500 – £500£5950+ yrs+2.3 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£1,614
per year at grade D
£964
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £591 a year — a 6.9% annual return on £8,620.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,033 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 October 2020£136,000

Estimated today: £173,060 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Ford Street: 14 sales since 1995 · £157,750 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Francis Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Brookfields Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Anglesey Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Nishkam High SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.69 · well above average (2023/24)
King Edward VI Handsworth SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.80 · well above average (2023/24)
Jewellery Quarter AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.60 · well below average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

63.8
crimes a month
702
in the last 12 months
Other theft
most common · 25% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009347, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Ford Street

How this home sits against its street.

36
graded homes
67.5
average score
C
most common grade
-7.5
this home vs street
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