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Tuesday 6 May 2014

Is Botley Oxford's Sleeping Giant?

A landlord of mine called me on Wednesday last week as he had recently missed out on a 2 bedroom property in Hazel Road, Botley (opposite Botley Arcade) which sold in a matter of days. He had also been looking at a 3 bed in Cumnor, and that went within 2 weeks. He wondered if there was anything special about the area so I decided to do a little research
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I have highlighted Hazel Road, Finmore Road and Cumnor as locations for my Botley review, all of which are 1970's build houses with 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms.

The 2 bedroom property in Hazel Road was sold at £250,000. If it was offered to decent standard it would attract a rent of £1025pcm which offers a yield return of 5%. Finmore Road's 1 bedroom converted flat sold at £149,500. This had a complete internal redecoration and commanded a rent of £795pcm which offers a fantastic annual yield of 6.3%. And finally a 3 bedroom property in Appleton Road, Cumnor which was purchased in January. This property offered 3 double bedrooms, garage and summer house and provided the perfect property for families looking to settle. The purchase price was £350,000 and it achieved a rent of £1600pcm giving it an annual yield of 5.4%.


Rather than go on and on, I will leave you this; All 3 locations showed a 20+% capital growth rise in the last 5 years



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