18 Pargeter Road, Smethwick B67 5HY

Mid-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 110 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £26,500 · £13,250 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1387.2 yrs+5.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10746.6 yrs+4.3 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£14950+ yrs+6.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£12850+ yrs+5.1 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

£1,545
per year at grade D
£1,022
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £523 a year — a 2.0% annual return on £26,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £1,001 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

1 December 2016£180,000
20 May 2014£155,000

Estimated today: £306,792 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Pargeter Road: 225 sales since 1995 · £197,335 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Gregory's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Abbey Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Abbey Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Lordswood Boys' SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.19 · average (2023/24)
Shireland Collegiate AcademySecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Bristnall Hall AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.59 · well 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.

7.3
crimes a month
73
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009926, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Pargeter Road

How this home sits against its street.

89
graded homes
59.5
average score
D
most common grade
+3.5
this home vs street
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