27 Bittern Close, Gateshead, NE11 9FF

27 Bittern Close is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Gateshead (NE11 9FF). It has a recorded floor area of 92 m² (around 990 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows a D (score 68), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. Earlier certificates rated it C (November 2013); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, window efficiency dropped from Good to Average and lighting dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Other recorded features include a balcony.

At 92 m² the property is well over the postcode median (64 m² across 57 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2004–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at -0.8% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £171,000 is 17.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£146/sq ft) was about 16.1% below the postcode norm. Most recent transfer: March 2021 at £145,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.