Echo Building, Apartment 16, West Wear Street, Sunderland, SR1 1XD

Echo Building is an end-of-terrace house in Sunderland (SR1 1XD). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 635 sq ft), construction records dating it to 2003-2006 and council tax band C. At 59 m² this is the 3rd smallest of 89 units on EPC record in Echo Building, where floor areas span 48–129 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 89 units on file. The latest certificate (October 2017) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would push it to C (score 76). Main heating runs on electricity.

At 59 m² it's 24.4% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (78 m² median across 90 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 2007–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at -7.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £116,000 sits 209.3% above the 2022 sale of £37,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£59/sq ft) was about 69.8% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £37,500 in September 2022. 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.