42 Tower View, Birmingham B29 6UE

Mid-Terrace house · 2017 · 73 m² · Unknown · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

BA for £11,500 · £11,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£2150+ yrs+5.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£2450+ yrs+6.5 pts · reaches A

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

£475
per year at grade B
£430
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £45 a year — a 0.4% annual return on £11,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £305 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

31 August 2018£245,000

Estimated today: £333,436 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Tower View: 60 sales since 1995 · £255,755 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Raddlebarn Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Tiverton AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Selly Park Girls' SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.55 · well above average (2023/24)
The University of Birmingham SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.09 · average (2023/24)
Dame Elizabeth Cadbury SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.21 · above 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.

72
crimes a month
792
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009284, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Tower View

How this home sits against its street.

66
graded homes
83.5
average score
B
most common grade
+1.5
this home vs street
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