8 Rathbone Close, Birmingham B5 7NF

End-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 86 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £16,500 · £16,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£3750+ yrs+4.8 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£2950+ yrs+3.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£3550+ yrs+4.5 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

£1,054
per year at grade C
£953
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £101 a year — a 0.6% annual return on £16,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £664 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 February 2016£151,000
5 May 1998£28,000

Estimated today: £243,225 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rathbone Close: 8 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Lift Percy ShurmerPrimary0.3 mi
Chandos Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Oasis Academy WoodviewPrimary0.4 mi
Ark St Alban's AcademySecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.26 · above average (2023/24)
Riverside Virtual CollegeSecondary0.6 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
City AcademySecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.47 · 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.

23.1
crimes a month
254
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008995, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rathbone Close

How this home sits against its street.

6
graded homes
65.7
average score
C
most common grade
+6.3
this home vs street
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