{"id":64,"date":"2014-09-18T19:14:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/?p=64"},"modified":"2015-08-10T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T19:22:14","slug":"spotlight-on-benedict-street-good-buy-to-let-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Benedict Street &#8211; good buy-to-let investment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benedict Street comprises 203 properties \u2013 the majority are residential (there are 188 homes in Benedict Street).<br \/>\nThe most expensive house purchase in Benedict Street is 64, which sold on 18\/03\/2014 for \u00a3316,200. The least expensive recorded transaction in Benedict Street is Flat 2 Benedictine Court, which sold on 16\/02\/1996 for \u00a323,000. The most recent transaction to have been recorded in Benedict Street was 90. It sold on 28\/05\/2014 for \u00a3220,000.<br \/>\nThere are 69 flats, apartments or maisonettes on Benedict Street. Some of these properties are relatively old, as at least ten of them were built one hundred and fourteen years ago. The valuation estimate for Benedict Street is \u00a3180,636, which makes it one of the least expensive places to live in Glastonbury, where the average house price is \u00a3208,473.<br \/>\n<b>Capital Growth<\/b><br \/>\nOver the last 10 years, property prices in Benedict Street have risen by 44.5% compared to an average rise of 24.6% for Glastonbury as a whole.<br \/>\n<b>Rental Yield<\/b><br \/>\nThe average rents on Benedict Street are as follows:<br \/>\nFlats ~ \u00a3500 PCM<br \/>\nTerraced ~ \u00a3630 PCM<br \/>\nSemi-Detached ~ \u00a3735 PCM<br \/>\nDetached ~ \u00a3750 PCM<br \/>\n1 Bedroom ~ \u00a3465 PCM<br \/>\n2 Bedroom ~ \u00a3610 PCM<br \/>\n3 Bedroom ~ \u00a3750 PCM<br \/>\n4 bedroom ~ \u00a3795 PCM<br \/>\nBenedict Street has an average current value of \u00a3180,636 and with an average rent of \u00a3575 giving an average yield of 3.8%.<br \/>\nNot a lot of people know that\u2026<br \/>\nIn medieval times Benedict Street was known as \u2018Madeload\u2019 [lode = watercourse crossing or wharf] and from c1850 to c1950 was known as Station Road linking Glastonbury Station to the town centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benedict Street comprises 203 properties \u2013 the majority are residential (there are 188 homes in Benedict Street). The most expensive house purchase in Benedict Street is 64, which sold on 18\/03\/2014 for \u00a3316,200. The least expensive recorded transaction in Benedict Street is Flat 2 Benedictine Court, which sold on 16\/02\/1996 for \u00a323,000. The most recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glastonburypropertynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}