Lochgelly

Area Guide For Lochgelly

Lochgelly is a town in Fife, Scotland. It is found between Lochs Mineral and Gelly to the north-west and south-east separately. It is divided from Cowdenbeath by the town of Lumphinnans. As indicated by the 2007 populace appraise, the town has a populace of 6,834. From the 1830s until the 1960s Lochgelly was a mining town. With the business now dead the town has slipped into financial and social hardship as with other previous mining towns. Lochgelly is presently classed as town in need of recovery "financially and socially" and has the least expensive normal home cost in Britain. Lochgelly, as a feature of the old parliamentary electorate of West Fife, was known as "Little Moscow" up to the 1950s owing to its Comrade political leanings. A zone of Lochgelly was known as the Content Grounds (or Glad Valley) and is referenced in the Scottish society tune 'The Kelty Clippie'.

 
 

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Estimated Price: £108,544
Average Asking Price: £113,483
Price change in last one year: £4,782
Average Price Paid: £98,081
Average Rent Rates: £476

 
 

Property Prices Breakdown in Lochgelly

Average Price for property in Lochgelly is around £108,544 which varies based on type of property you are interested in and ranges from £183,088 for detached house to around £103,541 for semi-detached. Similarly terraced house is around £84,931 and a flat is worth £69,740. Values have been changing and have risen £1,153 in last 3 months alone. Similar historical trend can be observed in price changes e.g. prices changed £2,900 in last 6 months, £4,782 in last 1 year, £12,191 in last 2 years, £15,509 in last 3 years, £15,243 in last 4 years and £13,835 in last 5 years.

Currently average asking price of a property in Lochgelly is around £113,483 based on approximately 192 properties for sale. Same is the case with rental options based on 11 properties up for rent, average asking rent is around £476 per month.

Estimated property value in Lochgelly is £108,544. Average asking price is £113,483 while average price paid is £94,309 which is up by £4,782 and Avg. asking rent £476.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 Lochgelly area. In last 1 year alone average price buyer paid is around £94,309 based on approximately 192 sales in Lochgelly area alone. If you compare it to last 3 years sales of 587 properties where buyers paid around £95,992. 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 £98,081 for 948 and average amount paid for purchase of approx. 1,458 properties sold in last 7 years comes to about £103,683 per sale.

 
 

Properties For Sale in Lochgelly

 
 

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 £57,000, £93,327 for a 2 bedroom house, £115,556 for a 3 bedroom house, £187,135 for a 4 bedroom house and £250,000 for a 5 bedroom house. For a flat similarly the prices varies from £79,500 for a single bedroom to £57,715 for a 2 bedroom Flat. Same is the case with 3 bedroom flat £67,317 and £59,950 for a 4 bedroom flat. To sum up the asking prices for properties in Lochgelly it comes to around average £68,250 for 1 bedroom property, £75,521 for 2 bedroom, £110,387 for 3 bedroom, £178,656 for 4 bedroom and £250,000 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 £453 for 2 bedroom to £543 for 3 bedroom. But if you are interested in renting a 1 bedroom flat then rent per month can be around £351. As the no. of bedroom increase so will the rent e.g. for a 2 bedroom flat it will be around £451. You should be generally be expecting around average £351 rent per month for single bedroom property, £452 for 2 bedroom and approximately £543 for 3 bedroom property in Lochgelly 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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