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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.
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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.
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Buy of the week: your redesign is ready in SW6
By Faye Greenslade
Underfloor heating throughout allows you to pad around barefoot. The reception room has a large bay window and solid wood flooring; there is a bright, apple-green kitchen, open-plan to a glazed side-return/dining area with glass doors to a decked garden. Both the main bedroom and bathroom also have French windows you can fling open on sunny days.
Parsons Green and Putney Bridge are the closest Tube stations.
Property: a two-bedroom flat.
Price: £500,000.
Agent: Faron Sutaria.
Visit www.homesandproperty.co.uk/sales/393513
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