3 Alwinton Gardens, Gateshead, NE11 0AP

3 Alwinton Gardens is a two-bedroom semi-detached house in Gateshead (NE11 0AP). It has a recorded floor area of 79 m² (around 850 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an F (score 22), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The rating has held steady at F across 2 certificates since July 2019. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Average and roof efficiency went from Average to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor and lighting dropped from Very Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on to be used only when there is no heating/hot. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history.

At 79 m² it's 16.2% larger than the typical home in the postcode (68 m² median across 34 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £161,000 is 25.8% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£151/sq ft) was about 16.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £128,000 in December 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.