18 Alverstone Avenue, Gateshead, NE9 6EU

18 Alverstone Avenue is a four-bedroom detached house in Gateshead (NE9 6EU). It has a recorded floor area of 102 m² (around 1095 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1930-1949 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (October 2008) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to D (score 63), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from October 2008, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since November 2009 — that's 16 years off the open market, well above the local norm. That sale fell during the post-crash dip, which often skews comparisons against later neighbouring sales. Sale prices here have outpaced Gateshead HPI: 4.8% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £290,000 sits 61.1% above the 2009 sale of £180,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£164/sq ft) was about 20.5% below the postcode norm. At 102 m² it sits well below the postcode median (150 m² across 11 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2011. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.