12 Charles Avenue, Whitley Bay, NE26 1AG

12 Charles Avenue is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Whitley Bay (NE26 1AG). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (January 2021) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. Earlier certificates rated it D (October 2008); the latest reading is one band lower. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor and lighting went from Very Poor to Average; while roof efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 78), a 2-band jump. Period features are noted in the property record.

At 148 m² it's 15.6% larger than the typical home in the postcode (128 m² median across 15 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £357,000 is 42.8% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£157/sq ft) was about 31% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £250,000 in September 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.