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This Edwardian semi in Howden was built in 1906, and the owners have restored it right down to the front porch. You climb steps up to a brick arch, step onto the original tiled floor, and the green front door is framed in stained glass. Inside, a turned spindle staircase rises from a tiled hall, and a carved timber fireplace in a deep green sitting room now holds a wood burner. Three reception rooms downstairs, and on the top floor a main bedroom under a pointed arched window. Out the back, a south facing garden runs about 50 metres to a summer house fitted out with a sofa and a drinks fridge. In the middle of Howden, £415K. home.uk/buy-me/139809 ❤️ For sale with @Screetons on Home

Homes for sale around Bath (BA) whose advert mentions a boot room: 1 in 29. In east London (E), with twice as many homes on the market: 3 out of 9,213.

Hook House is a Grade II listed Georgian house with over 5,500 sq ft inside, before you count the cellars and the attic. Through the blue front door, an arched hallway runs straight through to the garden. There's a book-lined sitting room with a carved fireplace, and an old cast-iron range that still gets a real fire. Up the stairs, the landing has a stained glass arched window. Outside there's 0.6 of an acre, plus a 1,700 sq ft former stable block with room to convert. The front looks over fields towards Howden Minster, on the edge of the riverside village of Hook near Goole. £885K. home.uk/buy-me/139807 ❤️ For sale with Limb Estate Agents on Home

Homes for sale in west Cornwall (TR) whose advert mentions a hot tub: 1 in 36. Across all of London: 1 in 800, with 11 times as many homes on the market.

What does £300,000 buy you? In Teesside, the typical home asking £275K to £325K is a four-bed of 114 m². In west London it is a one-bed flat of 43 m². Same money, 2.7 times the floor space. 55,706 homes for sale, England and Wales.

The Bay Horse was Haslingden's corner local, and now the stone pub is for sale as a house. It has been stripped right back. The old bar rooms still have blue tongue and groove panelling and a piano left against the wall, and the fire exit sign still hangs over the original glazed doorway. Behind the plaster there is bare stonework, old fireplaces, and a timber staircase that climbs between two stone walls. It needs everything doing, from floors to ceilings, but that's the point: you get to design the whole house yourself. £225K, in the middle of Haslingden. home.uk/buy-me/139806 ❤️ For sale with @coppenwall on Home

Homes for sale in England and Wales whose advert discloses Japanese knotweed: Swansea and west Wales (SA) 20. All of London, with nearly ten times as many homes on the market: 6.

This cottage was the Cratfield village post office, and it is thought to be over 300 years old. Dark beams run across the sitting room ceilings, there's an open fireplace in the snug, and the kitchen has a navy range cooker set against a wall of old brick. Four double bedrooms upstairs, a boarded attic with windows, and a big garden wrapping the front and side. Down the garden is an outbuilding with power, already kitted out as a den. Deep Suffolk countryside near Halesworth, £425K. home.uk/buy-me/139805 ❤️ For sale with @DurrantsResi on Home

Selling with no chain? In Dudley, 4 in 5 homes for sale that say so call it "no upward chain". In Southend, 0 of 1,262 do. It is "no onward chain" every time.

Parsonage Farm started life in the 1600s and has been growing ever since. Beamed ceilings run through the sitting room and the kitchen, there's a wood burner in a brick fireplace, and every one of the six bedrooms has its own bathroom. Outside it's 12 acres of Kent countryside split into paddocks, with a riding arena, a stable barn, a duck pond and a flat over the barn for guests or rental income. All of it just outside Sevenoaks, £1.85M. home.uk/buy-me/139804 ❤️ For sale with Humberts Sevenoaks on Home

Does a better EPC rating sell for more? Same type, same era: 1930s semis outside London sold for £3,065 per m² rated C and £3,113 rated E in 2025. Only the F and G bands show a real discount. 193,714 sales, England and Wales.

Second floor, right on the seafront at Westgate-on-Sea. The whole living room faces the view. Fold back the glass doors and you're on a full-width balcony looking straight over the sand of St Mildred's Bay, with the coast running off towards Margate. Two double bedrooms, the main one dual aspect with an en-suite, plus a lift and an allocated parking space. Beach huts and rock pools downstairs, fast trains to St Pancras from the station. Guide price £350K to £375K. home.uk/buy-me/139803 ❤️ For sale with Alexander Russell Estate Agents on Home

Modern method of auction: 1 in 39 homes for sale in Wolverhampton (WV) mention it in the advert. In London's postal districts, 1 in 438.

Bury's Hall in Ashill, Norfolk, dates from 1580, and those tall Tudor chimneys have been rising over the village ever since. Inside, the room you'll talk about afterwards is the games room: full-height oak panelling, a built-in oak bar, an open fireplace and a curved red banquette. Six bedrooms in the main house plus a two-bedroom annexe of its own. Outside there's an outdoor pool with a vine-covered pool house, an orchard, a pond and countryside on every side. Chain free at £1.4M. home.uk/buy-me/139801 ❤️ For sale with The Ivybridge Collection on Home

Price cuts: 48% of homes for sale in Brighton (BN) have had their asking price cut. In Liverpool (L), 33%, even though more of Liverpool's homes have been listed over 3 months.

A white-rendered cottage in Penrhiwllan, West Wales, where someone has built a reading nook on a mezzanine above the utility room, right under a Velux. Downstairs there's a stone-walled lounge with a log burner, a butler sink in the kitchen and a Rayburn in the dining room that can heat the water. Outside is the real draw: about 0.22 acres of south-facing garden with raised veg beds, a greenhouse and a run of sheds. Two bedrooms, a shower room on each floor, New Quay's harbour and Cardigan Bay dolphins within reach. £290K. home.uk/buy-me/139800 ❤️ For sale with Cardigan Bay Properties on Home

Same price, different council tax. Homes that sold for £275K to £325K in 2025: in the North East, 66% were Band D or above. In London, 13%. English bands still rest on 1991 values, so the same money buys a different bill depending on where you are. 80,947 sales, England.

To rent: a 2014 house in Hinxton designed by architects Snell David. Timber-clad gable at the back, a flint panel by the oak front door, and bi-folds that fold the whole dining room open to the terrace. Out there, silver birches and a raised corten steel pond. Four bedrooms over three floors, the main one with a Juliet balcony and en-suite, plus a log burner in the lounge and a second stove in the dining area. Oak-framed garage at the end of the garden. Part furnished, from early January, £2,250 a month. home.uk/rent-me/139799 ❤️ To let with Cheffins on Home

Half the houses for sale in the Bolton (BL) postcode area are leasehold: 818 of 1,637 where tenure is listed. In Bromley (BR) it is 6 of 1,506.

Arts and Crafts house in Reydon, next door to Southwold, with a big white semi-circular arch out front and diamond-paned leaded windows all over. Inside it is gloriously colourful: navy kitchen with a cream range cooker and a blue tiled splashback, and a garden room so full of plants it is basically a greenhouse you can sit in. Four bedrooms, including one on the ground floor with its own en-suite, three bathrooms and bi-folds out to a private garden. Gated, plenty of parking, and Southwold's cinema and cafés just up the road. £700K. home.uk/buy-me/139797 ❤️ For sale with @DurrantsResi on Home