Glastonbury is known as one of the most iconic music festivals in the world, and because of this, tickets sell out almost instantly every time they come out. However, there is a cheat code for getting Glastonbury tickets every year before everyone else does. Live there.
Compare My Move has researched the cheapest place you could buy a house around Glastonbury and be eligible for the local tickets. Before we get into specific locations, let’s look at how the local tickets work.
How do Local Tickets Work?
Because of the popularity of the festival, Michael Eavis, the founder of Glastonbury Festival puts aside tickets specifically to be sold to the local areas. These areas (most of which are listed below) usually get two chances to buy Glastonbury tickets, the general sale and then the local sale.
The local sale is split into two zones, the inner zone and the outer zone. The inner zone encompasses towns and villages that are closest to the festival, and therefore get priority over the outer zone, which encompasses towns and villages close to Glastonbury that will be affected but aren’t as adjacent as the inner zone.
There is also a Sunday ticket sale available to a catchment area outside the outer zone that encompasses central Somerset and Mendip areas – this ticket is just valid for the Sunday of Glastonbury and is given to residents that may still be affected by the festival, yet aren’t in the inner or outer zones.
For the 2023 festival, the inner zone had their specific tickets go on sale at 9 am on Sunday 20th November 2022, the outer zone can then join the sale at 10 am, and the Sunday tickets are available at 11 am. These tickets are limited – so that extra hour could be the difference between going to the festival or not.
Which Local Area Should I Move to?
Below is a table of areas in which you will be eligible for local tickets, along with their average house prices over the last 12 months, and the zone they are in for the local tickets.
| Area | Avg. House Price (Last 12 Months) | Zone |
| Lovington | £275,000 | Outer |
| Barton St David | £281,750 | Outer |
| Coleford | £282,584 | Outer |
| Shepton Mallet | £287,425 | Inner |
| Walton | £290,167 | Outer |
| Street | £290,445 | Outer |
| Glastonbury | £315,168 | Inner |
| Wells | £364,120 | Outer |
| Castle Cary | £380,592 | Outer |
| Holcombe | £402,038 | Outer |
| Evercreech | £416,515 | Outer |
| Ansford | £420,632 | Outer |
| Baltonsborough | £432,400 | Outer |
| Doulting | £472,217 | Inner |
| Ashcott | £501,225 | Outer |
| Cranmore | £519,000 | Outer |
| Ashwick | £545,667 | Outer |
| Ditcheat | £596,667 | Outer |
| West Lyford | £607,990 | Outer |
| Pylle | £622,500 | Inner |
| Leigh Upon-Mendip | £730,000 | Outer |
| West Pennard | £735,000 | Inner |
| Emborough | £750,000 | Outer |
| Pilton | £788,000 | Inner |
| East Pennard | £827,000 | Inner |
| Butleigh | £866,750 | Outer |
| Binegar | £1,172,500 | Outer |
| North Wootton | £1,218,833 | Inner |
| Croscombe | £1,220,000 | Inner |
| Average | £572,833.97 |
Data was taken from Rightmove.
Our research has shown that the average house price for the outer zone is £506,302.10, while the average house price for the inner zone is £720,682.56, with the pricest two areas, North Wootton and Croscombe being in the inner zone, both with an average house price of over £1.2m.
The cheapest area to buy a house in is Lovington, located in the outer area, the average house price is £275,000. Meaning that the average 5% deposit on a house in Lovington would be £13,750 or just over 41 Glastonbury Weekend Tickets (Weekend Tickets are sold at £335).
If you want to take no chances and live in the inner zone of the local ticket sales, the cheapest area for you is Shepton Mallet at £287,425, meaning that a 5% deposit on the average property there would be just under 43 Glastonbury Weekend Tickets (£14,371.25).
Sadly the house price isn’t the only cost that comes with buying a house, many other fees go into the process, one of the biggest being the conveyancing costs. To buy a house in Lovington, with all the searches you need, our Conveyancing Calculator has calculated a fee of just under 5 Glastonbury Weekend Tickets (£1,613). However, knowing the exact price you need to spend on conveyancing means that you’re less likely to get a bad deal, and can spend that extra money on a sturdy tent for your many years of Glastonbury in the future.
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