The Sorting House, Flat 56, 83 Newton Street, Manchester, M1 1ER

The Sorting House is a two-bedroom end-of-terrace house in Manchester (M1 1ER). It has a recorded floor area of 103 m² (around 1109 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (November 2021) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 2 certificates since February 2009. Between certificates, hot-water efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Good. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 74). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 103 m² the property is well over the postcode median (72 m² across 50 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Across 2017–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 1.1% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£255/sq ft) was about 16.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: December 2021 at £283,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.