13a, Hylton Road, Sunderland, SR4 7AF

13a is a five-bedroom mid-terrace house in Sunderland (SR4 7AF). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 606 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (November 2009) shows an F (score 36), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 47). The latest certificate is from November 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since February 1995 — that's 31 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. Today's modelled estimate of £142,000 sits 628.2% above the 1995 sale of £19,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£32/sq ft) was about 59.1% below the postcode norm. At 56 m² it sits well below the postcode median (97 m² across 34 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 88% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count.