Missed out on Glastonbury tickets? These homes would give you local sale access — and they're all under £400k
The must-have Glastonbury accessory these days? It’s not the Hunter wellies or the ever-more elaborate Shewee-style device — it’s the golden-ticket postcode that gets you there in the first place.
Ticket sale victims (there were around 2.5 million last year) must swallow any resentment towards local residents who have access to a priority sale following the bunfight general event, now a long-running sweetener from the Eavis family.
This is split into ‘inner’ areas — doorstep villages like Pilton and Glastonbury itself — and a wider ring of ‘outer’ residents who gain access to the booking site an hour later.
New data from removals comparison site Compare My Move has highlighted the average house prices in the catchment area for the locals sale, where some villages command triple the price tags of near neighbours.
It found that the average house price in these priority zones is £460,032, with property in the village of Alford costing an average of only £233,047.
Are we suggesting you move your life to a specific corner of Somerset for the annual Glasto ticket? Of course not.
But then again — why buy in trendy Bruton when you’d be just outside the catchment zone?
Where to buy for the Glastonbury locals sale
Shepton Mallet
Zone: Inner
Average house price: £252,562
5 per cent deposit: £12,628
What to buy: This three-bedroom townhouse with garage and garden, part of a historic hospital development, for £375,000 (Holland & Odam, 01458 552277)
Norah Fry, Shepton Mallet (Holland & Odam)
Glastonbury
Zone: Inner
Average house price: £266,267
5 per cent deposit: £13,313
What to buy: This unusual chalet-style home, with some mid-century wooden floors and slatted ceilings, for £249,950 (Cooper & Tanner, 01458 552262)
Chaingate Court, Glastonbury (Cooper & Tanner)
Doulting
Zone: Inner
Average house price: £275,500
5 per cent deposit: £13,775
What to buy: This pretty two-bedroom cottage with a Doulting stone hearth and wood-burning stove, for £320,000 (Cooper & Tanner, 01458 552262)
White Clover Cottage, Doulting (Cooper & Tanner)
West Pennard
Zone: Inner
Average house price: £554,500
5 per cent deposit: £27,725
What to buy: This spacious three-bedroom cottage, which comes with the attractive stone ruins of adjacent Wesleyan chapel, for £365,000 (Holland & Odam, 01458 552277)
Newtown Lane, West Pennard (Holland & Odam)
Pilton
Zone: Inner
Average house price: £669,429
5 per cent deposit: £33,471
What to buy: A deceptively spacious four-bedroom house, in need of some TLC throughout, for £385,000 (Lodestone, 01749 605088)
Culverwell Cottages, Pilton (Lodestone)
Coleford
Zone: Outer
Average house price: £271,384
5 per cent deposit: £13,569
What to buy: This three-bedroom detached house, with, unusually, a second garden accessed over a public footpath that could function as an allotment, for £375,000 (Cooper & Tanner, 01373 481067)
The Green, Coleford (Cooper & Tanner)
Street
Zone: Outer
Average house price: £293,628
5 per cent deposit: £14,681
What to buy: This smart modern townhouse over three floors, with a utility room and large pantry, for £290,000 (Allen & Harris, 020 3869 5321)
Couture Grove, Street (Allen & Harris)
Castle Cary
Zone: Outer
Average house price: £411,837
5 per cent deposit: £20,592
What to buy: A huge three-bedroom flat in this Grade II-listed building within a mile of the train station, for £270,000 (Roderick Thomas, 01963 401422)
Ansford Road, Castle Cary (Roderick Thomas)
Wells
Zone: Outer
Average house price: £354,310
5% deposit: £17,716
What to buy: This three-bedroom, triple-aspect corner house with garden, a short walk from the historic town centre, for £320,000 (Palmer Snell, 020 3835 3076)
St Andrews Mews, Wells (Palmer Snell)
Stoke St Michael
Zone: Outer
Average house price: £353,950
5% deposit: £17,698
What to buy: This picture-perfect stone cottage, with more than 1,000 square feet of space and a large garden backing onto fields, for £345,000 (Greenslade Taylor Hunt, 020 3869 5822)
Midway, Stoke St Michael (Greenslade Taylor Hunt)
Best-of-the-rest Glastonbury local sale areas
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