15 The Open, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 4DB

15 The Open is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE1 4DB). It has a recorded floor area of 44 m² (around 474 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. At 44 m² this is the 7th smallest of 29 units on EPC record in the building, where floor areas span 36–69 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (52 versus a best of 83). The latest certificate (October 2024) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since November 2008. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £118,000 in May 2021. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 1998–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.3% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £138,000 is 16.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£249/sq ft) was about 25% above the typical sold price in the postcode.