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There is something of a buy-to-let boom quietly rumbling away in Kingston upon Thames, the family favourite south-west London suburb. We get the property lowdown.
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Close to woods and parkland, with good links to London, this small town has a lot to offer those looking to start a new life out of the city.
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Buy of the week: Streatham Hill
On leafy Downton Avenue in SW2, plenty of family space can be yours for £550,000 at this Edwardian home. There are four bedrooms and a convertible loft space, and the open-plan kitchen/breakfast room has French windows to a good-size garden.
Swap of the week: Dalwood, Devon
Cosy up by woodburning stoves or cook a feast in the vaulted kitchen/breakfast room of this 18th-century thatch for £525,000. Three bedrooms overlook cottage gardens and a timber studio makes a perfect home office.
Life-changer: St Erth Praze, Cornwall
Tregenhorne Farm (£550,000) has four acres of paddocks, stables and valley views, minutes from Cornwall's north coast. You can run your own equestrian business from the garden office and the four-bedroom home has a country kitchen with an Aga.
Spotlight on Harpenden
Close to woods and parkland, with good links to London, this small town has a lot to offer those looking to start a new life out of the city.
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£299,950: Grade I listed former hunting lodge in parkland, close to Worcester
Droitwich, Worcestershire
This former hunting lodge in parkland, six miles from Worcester, has views to die for. Great care has gone into the restoration of Grade I listed Falcon Tower, and the result is a home full of 17th century character and 21st century mod cons.
There are lovely oak beams in the kitchen, a generous dining room, spiral stairs to a quadruple-aspect sitting room, a bedroom with an impressive stone fireplace and a spa-inspired bathroom built into the roof space.
Trains from Worcester reach London in about two hours 20 minutes.
Andrew Grant (01905 734705) is asking £299,950.
£420,000: 17th century country house in the quiet French village of Frozes
Frozes, central-west France
Across the Channel, in the quiet village of Frozes, about 20 minutes from Poitiers airport, more than £130,000 has been slashed from the asking price of this dreamy 17th century, five-bedroom, country house, yours now for about £420,000.
Wooden shutters frame windows that enjoy château views; floors are original flagstone; traditional stone fireplaces feature in the sitting and drawing rooms and all the bedrooms have parquet floors. Meanwhile, the detached east wing has a galleried main room, a bedroom, kitchen and shower room.
Two double garages, gardens and a large terrace complete the package.
Contact Leggett Immobilier on 0870 011 5151.
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