21 The Open, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 4DB

21 The Open is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE1 4DB). It has a recorded floor area of 68 m² (around 732 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (September 2016) returns a B (score 82), comfortably above the UK average. Main heating runs on electricity. At 68 m² this is the 28th 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 top.

Held since July 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 68 m² the property is well over the postcode median (48 m² across 28 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 86% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £156,000 is 30% above the 2002 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£164/sq ft) was about 21.3% below the postcode norm.