4 York Street, New Silksworth, Sunderland, SR3 1BU

4 York Street is a mid-terrace house in New Silksworth, Sunderland, Sunderland (SR3 1BU). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 764 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (November 2014) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 19 years, with the last transfer in May 2007. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale landed at the peak of the pre-credit-crunch market, which is a useful reference point when interpreting the price. At 71 m² it's 15.4% larger than the typical home in the postcode (62 m² median across 14 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Across 1996–2007, sale prices on this property compounded at 10.7% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £120,000 is 41.2% above the 2007 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£111/sq ft) was about 64% above the typical sold price in the postcode.