12 Smales Street, York, YO1 6EW

12 Smales Street is a two-bedroom mid-terrace house in York (YO1 6EW). It has a recorded floor area of 60 m² (around 646 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. Tenure is freehold. The latest certificate (September 2025) shows an E (score 50), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since January 2009. Between certificates, window efficiency went from Very Poor to Good; while lighting dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 72), a 2-band jump.

Held since June 1998 — that's 28 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 £245,000 sits 450.6% above the 1998 sale of £44,500. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£69/sq ft) was about 61.5% below the postcode norm. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 73% of similar EPCs).