25 Princess Road, Oldbury B68 9PX

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1930-1949 · 75 m² · Portable electric heaters assumed for most rooms

Upgrade Plan

GF for £200 · £200 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£100 – £300£742.7 yrs+1.6 pts · reaches F
Loft insulation(optional, beyond F)£100 – £300£474.2 yrs+1.0 pts
Change of heating system(optional, beyond F)£3,000 – £7,000£28417.6 yrs+5.9 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond F)£4,000 – £6,000£7750+ yrs+1.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond F)£11,000 – £20,000£9250+ yrs+1.9 pts

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

£2,839
per year at grade G
£2,263
per year at grade F

The full plan saves £74 a year — a 37.0% annual return on £200.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £1,707 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 August 2011£84,000

Estimated today: £167,691 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Princess Road: 109 sales since 1995 · £165,132 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bleakhouse Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Annie Lennard Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Moat Farm Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Bristnall Hall AcademySecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.59 · well above average (2023/24)
Q3 Academy LangleySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.81 · well above average (2023/24)
Oldbury AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.09 · 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.

17.6
crimes a month
194
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 64% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009937, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Princess Road

How this home sits against its street.

103
graded homes
61.8
average score
D
most common grade
-41.8
this home vs street
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