Lybster

Area Guide For Lybster

Lybster is a town on the east shoreline of Caithness in northern Scotland.

It was before a huge herring angling port, however has declined as of late, because of issues in the business. It has the "Big showdowns of Knotty"; knotty or cnatag is a variation of shinty.
The film, The Silver Darlings, from Neil Gunn's book, was shot here.

Julian Bradford KGC OCL, the Laird of Glencairn, has a holding close Lybster.

The Sinclairs of Lybster have long attaches running again to the Sinclair earls who decided Caithness that was previously a much bigger range taking in a lot of Sutherland. Following further back the family has associations with the Norwegian earls who controlled the north of Scotland for a considerable length of time.

Lybster track station was a piece of the Wick and Lybster Railway. It opened on 1 July 1903 and shut on 3 April 1944.

 
 

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Estimated Price: £128,440
Average Asking Price: £108,324
Price change in last one year: £4,918
Average Price Paid: £99,203
Average Rent Rates: --

 
 

Property Prices Breakdown in Lybster

Average Price for property in Lybster is around £128,440 which varies based on type of property you are interested in and ranges from £167,091 for detached house to around £81,383 for semi-detached. Similarly terraced house is around £111,633 and a flat is worth £86,632. Values have been changing and have risen £440 in last 3 months alone. Similar historical trend can be observed in price changes e.g. prices changed £364 in last 6 months, £4,918 in last 1 year, £11,447 in last 2 years, £13,458 in last 3 years, £5,509 in last 4 years and £7,247 in last 5 years.

Currently average asking price of a property in Lybster is around £108,324 based on approximately 13 properties for sale.

Estimated property value in Lybster is £128,440. Average asking price is £108,324 while average price paid is £87,061 which is up by £4,918.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 Lybster area. In last 1 year alone average price buyer paid is around £87,061 based on approximately 13 sales in Lybster area alone. If you compare it to last 3 years sales of 28 properties where buyers paid around £98,938. 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 £99,203 for 54 and average amount paid for purchase of approx. 81 properties sold in last 7 years comes to about £93,936 per sale.

 
 

Properties For Sale in Lybster

 
 

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 2 bedroom is around £160,000, £123,500 for a 3 bedroom house and £133,000 for a 4 bedroom house. To sum up the asking prices for properties in Lybster it comes to around average £160,000 for 2 bedroom property, £123,500 for 3 bedroom and £133,000 for 4 bedroom.

Popular Houses in Lybster

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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