23 Hamilton Drive, Whitley Bay, NE26 1JG

23 Hamilton Drive is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Whitley Bay (NE26 1JG). It has a recorded floor area of 148 m² (around 1593 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band D. The latest certificate (June 2022) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since May 2011. Between certificates, lighting went from Average to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a loft. The home occupies a corner plot.

At 148 m² the property is well over the postcode median (103 m² across 16 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 81% of similar EPCs). Across 1995–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 6.5% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£295/sq ft) was about 54.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: November 2022 at £470,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One historical planning record sits against the property in 2023.