3 The Open, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 4DB

3 The Open is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE1 4DB). It has a recorded floor area of 36 m² (around 388 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1983-1990 and council tax band B. At 36 m² this is the smallest unit on EPC record across the building (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 (March 2022) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

At 36 m² it's 27.3% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (50 m² median across 28 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2002–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 2.2% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£301/sq ft) was about 48% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Sold August 2022 for £116,500. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.