City’s most expensive home sold in May

THE most expensive house sold in Coventry in May changed hands for £750,000.

The five-bedroom property was located in Cryfields Heights, just off Gibbett Hill Road, an upmarket culde-sac which consists entirely of large detached properties.

Sold on May 3 the property, 2 Cryfields Heights, had almost trebled in value since it was last sold in 2010 for £285,000.

The next most expensive property sold in the city during May was a sixbedroom detached home at 5 Asthill Grove, near War Memorial Park, which fetched £620,000 in a deal that went through on May 15.

The third most expensive property that changed hands in Coventry in May was 48 Ten Shilling Drive, a detached four-bedroom home which sold for £450,000 on May 10.

Next on the list was 41 Lyons Drive, a four-bedroom detached property, which sold for £385,000 on May 5.

It was followed by 72 Hockley Lane, which sold for £380,000 on May 5.

Across the county Coventry was trumped by the most expensive property sold in Warwickshire.

The Vine House, a period detached property, in High Street, Welford-on-Avon, sold for £940,000.

A property sale in Leamington was not too far behind it. 3 Fryer Avenue, a detached property, sold for £810,000.

The cheapest property cold in Coventry in May was a flat. 4 Bradnick Place was sold for £77,000 on May 11. And two terraced houses, at 4 Welford Place and 53 Cambridge Street, sold for £80,000 on May 16.

Meanwhile across Warwickshire the cheapest property sold in May was a flat at 11 Simon Close, which sold for £73,000 on May 5. The most expensive home sold in England in May, a detached property in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, went for a whopping £37million.

The cheapest residential sale in May was of a terraced property in Wingate, County Durham for £10,250.