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Top 20 least expensive streets in Street and Glastonbury – Part 3 (12-10)

We continue our top 20 least expensive streets in Street and Glastonbury with numbers 12 to 10..

12 – Mayfield Close (Glastonbury)

Average price paid – £130,272. Mayfield Close was built by Hampshire based Matthews Developments now liquidated. Mayfield Close is a development of 11 houses 1 and 2 bedroom houses sandwiched between Heritage Court and Morrisons supermarket and just a short stroll from Magdalene Street. Recorded prices paid have ranged from £120,000 (number 5 sold on 02/05/2014) to £156,000 (number 7 sold on 30/06/2017). The developer had put forward two names for the development Tannery Close and Mayfield Close but on the grounds that there was already a Tannery Close in nearby Street, Mayfield Close was the name chosen by the Town Council.

11 – Turstin Road (Glastonbury)

Average price paid – £129,800. Turstin Road is part of the Windmill Hill development referred to in number 14 in this list (Whiting Road) and was built around 1956. There are 34 properties in Turstin Road of which half are social housing properties. The property sale that has the highest recorded price in Turstin Road to date is 28, which sold for £195,000 on 18/07/2016. The least expensive house purchase in Turstin Road is 15, which sold for £19,040 on 22/01/2001. The most recently recorded transaction in Turstin Road was 33, which sold for £123,000 on 01/09/2017. Turstin Road like nearby Whiting Road was named after an Abbot of Glastonbury – Turstin was the first Norman Abbot of Glastonbury appointed in 1082.

10 – The Cross (Street)

Average price paid – £129,712. The Cross consists of 22 properties. The earliest recorded transaction was for 23 which sold for £139,950 on 07/07/2008. The most recent transaction was for 4, which sold for £150,000 on 07/10/2016. The most expensive transactions were for 2 and 4 which each sold for £150,000. The least expensive transactions were for 1 and 23 which each sold for £100,000 in 2012 and 2013 respectively.

The series will continue with number 9 so keep guessing.

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

Top 20 least expensive streets in Street and Glastonbury – Part 2 (16-13)

Continuing the series where I look at the top 20 least expensive streets in Street and Glastonbury here in part 2 I look at numbers 16 to 13…

16 – Oxendale (Street)

Average price paid – £139,247. Oxendale is home to 63 dwellings of which 46 are apartments in Bluestone Court. Bluestone Court was recently featured in another of my articles (here). The most recent house purchase in Oxendale was Apartment 28 Bluestone Court, which sold on 05/05/2017 for £175,000. The most expensive transaction that has been recorded in Oxendale is 11. It sold on 19/08/2016 for £257,500.

15 – Ridgeway Gardens (Glastonbury)

Average price paid – £137,300. Ridgeway Gardens consists of 25 properties. The most expensive house purchase recorded to date in Ridgeway Gardens is 4, which sold on 30/09/2014 for £310,000.

14 – Whiting Road (Glastonbury)

Average price paid – £132,615. Just a short distance from Ridgeway Gardens is Whiting Road which, for the average property, is around £5000 cheaper. Whiting Road is one of two streets on Windmill Hill that make it into this top 20. There are 60 dwellings on Whiting Road. To meet the demand for more housing after the Second World War, housing was built on Windmill Hill (or Edmund Hill as it was once known) most of it built by the local authority.

13 – Coachmans Yard (Glastonbury)

Average price paid – £130,428. For number 13 in this list we head into the centre of Glastonbury and just off Northload Street is Coachmans Yard home to 24 modern apartments. The first properties in Coachmans Yard completed on 20/12/2004 (numbers 8 & 9). The most expensive transaction that has been recorded in Coachmans Yard is 22 which sold for £149,250 on 18/01/2007. 22 was sold exactly 6 years later at a loss of £24,250 but has since been re-sold for £140,000. Several properties have sold for £120,000 which is the lowest recorded price for any property in Coachmans Yard. The most recent purchase in Coachmans Yard was 10, which sold for £137,500 on 15/02/2017. At least two of the properties in Coachmans Yard are used as holiday lets.

The series will continue with number 12 in the next article – how many have you guessed so far?

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

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