5 Caerau Crescent, Newport, NP20 4HG

5 Caerau Crescent is a semi-detached house in Newport (NP20 4HG). It has a recorded floor area of 230 m² (around 2476 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band B. The latest certificate (December 2020) shows an E (score 40), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. When first surveyed in August 2020 the rating was F, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, lighting went from Good to Very Good. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 79), a 2-band jump.

One planning application is currently pending a decision in 2021. At 230 m² the property is well over the postcode median (56 m² across 44 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 86% of similar EPCs). Today's modelled estimate of £350,000 is 19.5% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£118/sq ft) was about 127.7% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: October 2021 at £293,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.