40 Alexander Road, Smethwick B67 5PZ

Mid-Terrace house · 1930-1949 · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £24,137 · £12,068 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£23 – £300typical£404.0 yrs+2.7 pts · reaches D
Loft insulation£225typical£2310.0 yrs+1.5 pts
Heating controls£400typical£1723.2 yrs+1.1 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£2950+ yrs+1.9 pts
Solar water heating£5,000typical£3750+ yrs+2.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£4450+ yrs+2.9 pts
Solid wall insulation£9,000typical£5150+ yrs+3.4 pts · reaches C

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£815
per year at grade E
£574
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £241 a year — a 1.0% annual return on £24,137.

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

16 May 2014£108,500
18 May 2007£133,000

Estimated today: £210,778 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Alexander Road: 67 sales since 1995 · £172,595 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Abbey Infant SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Abbey Junior SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
St Gregory's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Bristnall Hall AcademySecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.59 · well above average (2023/24)
Lordswood Boys' SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.19 · average (2023/24)
Shireland Collegiate AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.38 · 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.

5.1
crimes a month
41
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 44% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009922, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Alexander Road

How this home sits against its street.

58
graded homes
61.6
average score
D
most common grade
-8.6
this home vs street
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