3 East Street, Newport, NP20 4BR

3 East Street is a four-bedroom mid-terrace house in Newport (NP20 4BR). It has a recorded floor area of 131 m² (around 1410 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2024) returns a high B (score 90), putting the home a stone's throw from an A rating. When first surveyed in July 2014 the rating was D, the property has climbed 2 bands since. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Poor to Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good. The recommended improvements would push it to A (score 92).

Held since August 2002 — that's 24 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 131 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 20 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the top 10% of properties in this postcode. Today's modelled estimate of £221,000 sits 281% above the 2002 sale of £58,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£41/sq ft) was about 56.2% below the postcode norm.