Stevenage: The fastest areas for selling homes near the town

Property Solvers' speed of sale tool has revealed that, over the past year, it has taken an average of 17.91 weeks to sell a property across the area.

The statistics track the moment a property is listed on the UK’s leading property portals to the point it’s marked as officially ‘sold’ at the HM Land Registry.

The fastest area near Stevenage was revealed to be Ware, which had an average of 97 days to sell each property.

Meanwhile, Royston sits last in the list, with an average of 149 days to sell each home.

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The full list of areas can be seen below:

1. Ware (averaging 97 days per sale)
2. Biggleswade (averaging 127 days per sale)
3. Hitchin (averaging 127 days per sale)
4. Letchworth (averaging 128 days per sale)
5. Stevenage (averaging 129 days per sale)
6. Sandy (averaging 133 days per sale)
7. Shefford (averaging 135 days per sale)
8. Baldock (averaging 137 days per sale)
9. Royston (averaging 149 days per sale)

Ruban Selvanayagam of Property Solvers commented: “The property market is certainly in a different place relative to a couple of years ago.

"The continued pressures on the mortgage sector and buyers ability to secure the right kind of finance has resulted in delays with sales completing."