In this paper, we study a new integrable fifth-order Camassa–Holm (CH)-type equation derived by Reyes, Zhu, and Qiao [49], which we call the RZQ equation. The m-form of this equation possesses a striking similarity to the m-form of the CH equation. However, unlike the CH equation, the nonlocal form of this equation cannot be interpreted as a nonlocal perturbation of Burgers’ equation. We prove that the initial value problem corresponding to the RZQ equation is well-posed in the sense of Hadamard, in Sobolev spaces \(H^s\) , \(s>7/2\) . We further show that the data-to-solution map is not uniformly continuous in the \(H^s\) topology, though it is Hölder continuous in a weaker topology. The initial value problem corresponding to the RZQ equation is ill-posed in \(H^s\) for \(s<7/2\) .