46 Bywell Road, Sunderland, SR6 7QT

46 Bywell Road is a semi-detached house in Sunderland (SR6 7QT). It has a recorded floor area of 62 m² (around 667 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (July 2015) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. When first surveyed in November 2014 the rating was G, the property has climbed 1 band since. Between certificates, roof efficiency went from Very Poor to Very Good, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Average and lighting went from Very Poor to Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Average to Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on house coal. The latest certificate is from July 2015, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 62 m² it sits well below the postcode median (130 m² across 31 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2019. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2019–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 53.5% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £451,000 is 12.7% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£599/sq ft) was about 213% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: February 2021 at £400,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.