5 Needham Street, Gazeley, Newmarket, CB8 8RR

5 Needham Street is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Gazeley, Newmarket, Newmarket (CB8 8RR). It has a recorded floor area of 65 m² (around 700 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2020) shows a G (score 15), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at G across 2 certificates since August 2009. Between certificates, wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to E (score 54), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on dual fuel.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 6.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£397/sq ft) was about 20.5% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 65 m² it's 19.8% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (81 m² median across 5 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Last sale on file: £277,500 in June 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.