38 Forsythia Close, Birmingham B31 1XN

Semi-Detached house · Built 1991-1995 · 106 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £17,500 · £17,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£4622.0 yrs+4.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3550+ yrs+3.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£4250+ yrs+3.8 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

£1,153
per year at grade C
£1,030
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £123 a year — a 0.7% annual return on £17,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £799 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 February 2024£290,500
6 September 2016£189,950
16 May 2008£142,500

Estimated today: £309,644 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Forsythia Close: 164 sales since 1995 · £163,235 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Woodcock Hill Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Green Meadow Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Princethorpe Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
E-ACT Shenley AcademySecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.70 · well below average (2023/24)
Bartley Green SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.46 · below average (2023/24)
Hillcrest School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.46 · 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.

8.6
crimes a month
69
in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime
most common · 26% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008924, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Forsythia Close

How this home sits against its street.

39
graded homes
69.6
average score
C
most common grade
+2.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.