Bathgate

Area Guide For Bathgate

Bathgate is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, on the M8 motorway 5 miles (8â km) west of Livingston. Adjacent towns are Armadale, Blackburn, Linlithgow, Livingston, West Calder, and Whitburn. Edinburgh Airport is 13 miles (21â km) away. Arranged 2 miles (3â km) south of the Neolithic entombment site at Cairnpapple Hill, Bathgate and the encompassing territory hint at home subsequent to around 3500 BC. Bathgate first enters the accounts of history in an affirmation sanction by King Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141 â€" 9 December 1165). In imperial sanctions of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth hundreds of years, the name of Bathgate has showed up as: Bathchet (1160), Bathket (1250) and Bathgetum (1316). Batket in the fourteenth century, and by the fifteenth showed up as both Bathgat and Bathcat. The name is a “manifest corruption” of the first Cumbric determination importance Boar Wood (baedd coed). In 1315, the girl of King Robert I of Scotland (Robert The Bruce), Marjorie (then again spelt Margery) Bruce, wedded Walter Stewart (or Steward) (1293â€" 1326), the sixth Lord High Steward of Scotland.

 
 

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Estimated Price: £154,287
Average Asking Price: £170,474
Price change in last one year: £13,504
Average Price Paid: £131,095
Average Rent Rates: £606

 
 

Property Prices Breakdown in Bathgate

Average Price for property in Bathgate is around £154,287 which varies based on type of property you are interested in and ranges from £249,275 for detached house to around £132,158 for semi-detached. Similarly terraced house is around £118,386 and a flat is worth £107,605. Values have been changing and have risen £1,976 in last 3 months alone. Similar historical trend can be observed in price changes e.g. prices changed £5,084 in last 6 months, £13,504 in last 1 year, £17,676 in last 2 years, £19,383 in last 3 years, £19,332 in last 4 years and £16,703 in last 5 years.

Currently average asking price of a property in Bathgate is around £170,474 based on approximately 853 properties for sale. Same is the case with rental options based on 57 properties up for rent, average asking rent is around £606 per month.

Estimated property value in Bathgate is £154,287. Average asking price is £170,474 while average price paid is £131,235 which is up by £13,504 and Avg. asking rent £606.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 Bathgate area. In last 1 year alone average price buyer paid is around £131,235 based on approximately 853 sales in Bathgate area alone. If you compare it to last 3 years sales of 2,415 properties where buyers paid around £132,682. 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 £131,095 for 3,571 and average amount paid for purchase of approx. 5,440 properties sold in last 7 years comes to about £131,519 per sale.

 
 

Properties For Sale in Bathgate

 
 

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 £75,000, £96,473 for a 2 bedroom house, £136,270 for a 3 bedroom house, £220,743 for a 4 bedroom house and £332,738 for a 5 bedroom house. For a flat similarly the prices varies from £60,473 for a single bedroom to £85,688 for a 2 bedroom Flat. Same is the case with 3 bedroom flat £90,286 and £75,000 for a 4 bedroom flat. To sum up the asking prices for properties in Bathgate it comes to around average £61,200 for 1 bedroom property, £91,219 for 2 bedroom, £133,954 for 3 bedroom, £219,596 for 4 bedroom and £332,738 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 £563 for 2 bedroom to £630 for 3 bedroom, £908 for 4 bedroom and £1,300 for 5 bedroom. But if you are interested in renting a 1 bedroom flat then rent per month can be around £594. As the no. of bedroom increase so will the rent e.g. for a 2 bedroom flat it will be around £517 and £532 for 3 bedroom. You should be generally be expecting around average £594 rent per month for single bedroom property, £537 for 2 bedroom, £605 for 3 bedroom, £908 for 4 bedroom and approximately £1,300 for a 5 bedroom property in Bathgate 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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