5 Balmoral Gardens, Whitley Bay, NE26 3LU

5 Balmoral Gardens is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Whitley Bay (NE26 3LU). It has a recorded floor area of 178 m² (around 1916 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position. The latest certificate (April 2021) shows a C (score 69), just inside the C band. The rating has held steady at C across 2 certificates since April 2011. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and roof efficiency dropped from Very Good to Very Poor.

Most recent transfer: July 2021 at £430,000. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2022. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 178 m² it's 18.7% larger than the typical home in the postcode (150 m² median across 17 EPCs). Its energy rating outperforms most of the postcode (better than 76% of similar EPCs). Across 2010–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 9.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £548,000 is 27.4% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£224/sq ft) was about 67% above the typical sold price in the postcode.