Upgrade Plan
This certificate lists no outstanding recommendations.
Running costs
Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.
Sold prices
Estimated today: £597,612 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation
Martyn Smith Close: 20 sales since 1995 · £425,375 average over 10 years
Schools nearby
The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.
| School | Phase | Distance | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grove Vale Primary School | Primary | 0.3 mi | — |
| Holy Name Catholic Primary School | Primary | 0.7 mi | — |
| Hamstead Primary School | Primary | 0.9 mi | — |
| Q3 Academy Great Barr | Secondary | 0.5 mi | Progress 8 -0.29 · below average (2023/24) |
| Hamstead Hall Academy | Secondary | 1.4 mi | Progress 8 +0.05 · average (2023/24) |
| Joseph Leckie Academy | Secondary | 1.7 mi | Progress 8 +0.11 · 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.
Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009949, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.
Martyn Smith Close
How this home sits against its street.