Flat 5, 89 Wolborough Street, Newton Abbot, TQ12 1LG

Flat 5 is a one-bedroom semi-detached house in Newton Abbot (TQ12 1LG). It has a recorded floor area of 59 m² (around 635 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. At 59 m² this is the largest unit on EPC record across the building (31–59 m²). The building's EPC ratings span G to D, with this unit at the bottom. On EPC score it ranks last in the building (19 versus a best of 59). Period features are noted in the property record. The latest certificate (January 2022) shows a G (score 19), near the bottom of the EPC scale. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 71), a 4-band jump. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 0.6% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£191/sq ft) was about 42.8% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 59 m² it's 16.8% larger than the typical home in the postcode (51 m² median across 16 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Last sale on file: £121,000 in June 2022. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.