17 Park Avenue, Newcastle, ST5 8AX

17 Park Avenue is a five-bedroom semi-detached house in Newcastle (ST5 8AX). It has a recorded floor area of 253 m² (around 2723 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2011) shows an F (score 34), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would push it to E (score 46). The latest certificate is from January 2011, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.1% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £513,000 is 17.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£160/sq ft) was about 52% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 253 m² the property is well over the postcode median (84 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 78% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Last sale on file: £435,000 in January 2021. 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. One planning record on file: tree works approved in 2016. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.