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Continuing the series of the top 20 least expensive streets in Street and Glastonbury with number 6..

6 – Moonraker Square (Street)

Average price paid – £119,384. Moonraker Square is the newest street on this list. Moonraker Square is part of the Barratt Homes section of the Houndwood development and consists of 30 x 1 and 2 bedroom apartments, 12 of which are affordable housing. The most expensive transaction in Moonraker Square to date was £135,000 paid for 15 on 18/03/2016. The most recent transaction was £125,000 paid for 7 on 27/10/2017. The lowest price transaction was £105,000 paid for 11 on 18/02/2015.

5 – Lime Tree Square (Street)

Average price paid – £118,397. Lime Tree Square consists of 60 apartments in 2 blocks on the Houndwood development. The first property sale recorded on Houndwood was 25 Lime Tree Square which sold on 12/12/2008 for £157,950. This is also the most expensive price paid for a Lime Tree Square property to date. The least expensive house purchase in Lime Tree Square is 42, which sold on 10/03/2015 for £91,500. The most recently recorded transaction in Lime Tree Square was 56, which sold on 22/09/2017 for £137,500 and £3,500 more than the previous sale of this property 23 months earlier.

4 – Sedgemoor Way (Glastonbury)

Average price paid – £116,459. Linking Northload Street to the Beckery roundabout is Sedgemoor Way which is home to 24 dwellings – all apartments and all in one development, The Tanneries. To date there have been 45 recorded transactions for the 24 properties in The Tanneries. The earliest transaction was on 11th April 2007 when 20 was sold for £167,500 and remains the highest price paid for a property at The Tanneries. Sedgemoor Way is a relatively new addition to the Glastonbury road system and the area around The Tanneries was once the site of a gas works with 3 large holding tanks located on what is now Sedgemoor Way.

In the next article I will look at the final 3 in the series. Can you guess which streets have made it into the top 3?

About Tom Morgan

Founder of Jungle Property the multi award-winning letting agent based in Glastonbury, Somerset. I am passionate about property and Glastonbury and about providing the very best advice to anyone who wants the best return on a buy-to-let property investment. For an open and brutally honest opinion on anything in the Glastonbury property market please contact me via tom.morgan@jungleproperty.co.uk

My look at the top 20 least expensive streets in Streets and Gkastonbury continues with number 9..

9 – The Archers Way (Glastonbury)

Average price paid – £123,281. The Archers Way gets its name from the fact it leads to the butts area where local medieval bowmen once trained. The Archers Way is home to 74 properties including the library, Citizens Advice Bureau, Council Information Point (collectively known as the Glastonbury Library Hub), the Royal Mail Glastonbury Delivery Office, 3 shops and 13 flats. Fourteen of these properties were built eighty-three years ago in 1935. The beauty of living on The Archers Way is the close proximity to the epicentre of the town. The most expensive properties in The Archers Way have been 13 and 32 which each sold for £173,000 in 2007 and 2013 respectively. The least expensive recorded transaction in The Archers Way is Flat 8 St Georges Court, which sold on 14/07/1995 for £18,000. The most recent transaction to have been recorded in The Archers Way was 43, which sold on 26/06/2017 for £165,000.

8 – Springbok Close (Street)

Average price paid – £122,250. Springbok Close is just a stones throw from Crispin School and consists of 24 properties, 19 of which are flats in William Reynolds House. William Reynolds was an architect and a nephew of William S Clark and is best remembered for his design of the Bear Inn which was demolished in 1893 and rebuilt as a temperance hotel (and did not have a license to serve alcohol until the 1970’s). The least expensive recorded transaction in Springbok Close is Flat 3 William Reynolds House, which sold on 30/04/1996 for £22,500. The most recent and most expensive transaction was 1 Springbok Close which sold for £230,000 on 03/08/2017.

7 – Northload Street (Glastonbury)

Average price paid – £121,707. One of the oldest thoroughfares in Glastonbury, Northload Street first took its name in 1240. Just 1/3 of a mile long, Northload Street is home to 149 dwellings – a mix of flats and terraced houses. The most recent transaction on Northload Street was on 19/07/2017 for Flat 3, St John’s Place which sold for £90,000. The highest price paid for a property on Northload Street was £550,000 paid for 22 Northload Street in 2001 which was sold at a later date for £384,000. The earliest buildings date from the 18th century with many terraced houses added to Northload Street in 1891 and many recent developments or conversions in the last decade, the most recent being the building of Maia Terrace.

The series continues with number 6 in the next article.

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