48 Forest Hill Road, Birmingham B26 3TA

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 89 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £15,600 · £7,800 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£1574.5 yrs+6.3 pts
Double glazing£1,400 – £400£5715.9 yrs+2.3 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£12124.7 yrs+4.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£14527.6 yrs+5.8 pts
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£16941.3 yrs+6.8 pts · reaches B

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

£1,504
per year at grade D
£855
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £649 a year — a 4.2% annual return on £15,600.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £978 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 September 2020£232,500
11 November 2017£170,000
25 April 2003£125,000
4 December 1996£63,000

Estimated today: £294,307 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Forest Hill Road: 56 sales since 1995 · £236,711 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Thomas More Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Stanville Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Mapledene Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Lyndon SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.47 · above average (2023/24)
King Edward VI Sheldon Heath AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.19 · average (2023/24)
Cockshut Hill SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.54 · 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.

6.9
crimes a month
69
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 55% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009319, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Forest Hill Road

How this home sits against its street.

25
graded homes
55.4
average score
D
most common grade
+5.6
this home vs street
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