Hitchin

Area Guide For Hitchin

Hitchin is a market/business sector town in North Hertfordshire District in Hertfordshire, England, with an expected populace as at 2011 of 33,350. Hitchin is initially noted as the focal spot of the Hicce individuals said in a seventh century document, the Tribal Hidage. The tribal name is Brittonic as opposed to Old English and gets from *siccā, signifying 'dry', which is maybe a reference to the neighborhood stream, the Hiz. It has been proposed that Hitchin was the area of Clofeshoh, the spot picked in 673 by Theodore of Tarsus the Archbishop of Canterbury amid the Synod of Hertford, the initially gathering of agents of the juvenile Christian chapels of Anglo-Saxon England, to hold yearly synods of the houses of worship as Theodore endeavored to unite and incorporate Christianity in England.

 
 

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Estimated Price: £360,812
Average Asking Price: £408,121
Price change in last one year: £25,878
Average Price Paid: £280,373
Average Rent Rates: £1,333

 
 

Property Prices Breakdown in Hitchin

Average Price for property in Hitchin is around £360,812 which varies based on type of property you are interested in and ranges from £564,371 for detached house to around £346,707 for semi-detached. Similarly terraced house is around £280,268 and a flat is worth £191,957. Values have been changing and have risen £1,956 in last 3 months alone. Similar historical trend can be observed in price changes e.g. prices changed £1,285 in last 6 months, £25,878 in last 1 year, £48,148 in last 2 years, £51,064 in last 3 years, £49,615 in last 4 years and £53,624 in last 5 years.

Currently average asking price of a property in Hitchin is around £408,121 based on approximately 1,000 properties for sale. Same is the case with rental options based on 81 properties up for rent, average asking rent is around £1,333 per month.

Estimated property value in Hitchin is £360,812. Average asking price is £408,121 while average price paid is £305,165 which is up by £25,878 and Avg. asking rent £1,333.Based on an Online Survey

Buyers are willing to pay high dollar prices to grab these properties because of the recent trend in real estate investment especially in Hitchin area. In last 1 year alone average price buyer paid is around £305,165 based on approximately 1,000 sales in Hitchin area alone. If you compare it to last 3 years sales of 3,038 properties where buyers paid around £287,794. It has been same for some time now for e.g. if you take an average of amount paid in last 5 years, it comes to around £280,373 for 4,984 and average amount paid for purchase of approx. 6,688 properties sold in last 7 years comes to about £273,233 per sale.

 
 

Properties For Sale in Hitchin

 
 

Breakdown of asking prices for homes of different sizes show that price varies clearly based on no of bedrooms and type of house. Asking price for a house with 1 bedroom is around £98,788, £317,467 for a 2 bedroom house, £369,937 for a 3 bedroom house, £600,535 for a 4 bedroom house and £911,759 for a 5 bedroom house. For a flat similarly the prices varies from £117,077 for a single bedroom to £210,524 for a 2 bedroom Flat. Same is the case with 3 bedroom flat £366,665 and £375,000 for a 4 bedroom flat. To sum up the asking prices for properties in Hitchin it comes to around average £113,101 for 1 bedroom property, £244,219 for 2 bedroom, £369,752 for 3 bedroom, £594,270 for 4 bedroom and £911,759 for a 5 bedroom property.

Rent per calendar month varies similarly based on type and size of the house. If you look at the rents per month for houses alone it can vary from £823 for 1 bedroom to £855 for 2 bedrooms, £1,171 for 3 bedrooms, £1,883 for 4 bedrooms and £2,293 for 5 bedrooms house. But if you are interested in renting a 1 bedroom flat then rent per month can be around £697. As the no. of bedroom increase so will the rent e.g. for a 2 bedroom flat it will be around £895. You should be generally be expecting around average £707 rent per month for single bedroom property, £880 for 2 bedroom, £1,171 for 3 bedroom, £1,883 for 4 bedroom and approximately £2,293 for a 5 bedroom property in Hitchin area.

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Disclaimer : Location real estate estimates and values are based on House price index background data and Sales data provided by United Kingdom Land registry Records available as public records from their website. This information is updated monthly on our website and may not reflect all public transactions. This information is based on estimated calculation generated from our developed algorithms. We are striving to make this information as accurate and useful as possible. This data covers the transactions received at Land Registry in the period 1/1/1995 to 9/1/2014. © Crown copyright 2014. Data produced by Land Registry © Crown copyright 2014.

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