Discounted homes for January

Save yourself just under £50,000 on this pretty little cottage near Chipping Norton. It first came on to the market in October 2009 for just shy of £700,000; this month it was reduced to £650,000. All the rooms (including the four bedrooms) have whitewashed beams, and there's a lovely farmhouse cottage overlooking the garden. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

This magical Grade II listed flint-walled house has been massively discounted by £90,000 - down from £825,000 to £735,000. The five-bedroom family house is reputed to be one of the oldest properties in Brighton and Hove, originally built in the 1540s and full of Jacobean character, including wooden beams and wrought-iron Juliet balconies. Photograph: King & Chasemore/guardian.co.uk

The asking price on this bespoke designer home has just been knocked down a further £100,000 - on the market for a still-substantial price of £1.2m. It's stunning though - the entire ground floor is open plan, with a Scandinavian style fireplace dividing the living room and dining area, and upstairs there are five bedrooms. The finishing are top-end: a Pogenpohl kitchen, an an elliptical staircase and underfloor heating - and there's a swimming pool too. Photograph: Alan de Maid/guardian.co.uk

Fancy a chocolate box cottage? Save £26,000 on the original asking price of this picture-perfect one in Suffolk - now reduced to £399,000. There's are climbing roses and fruit trees in the garden; inside there are three bedrooms all with exposed beams and oak floors - plus a free-standing rolled top bath with clawed ball feet for added luxury. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

This amazingly unique property has been reduced by £100,000 to £699,500 and offers bags of Florentine charm - in the middle of Torquay. Vane Tower was built in the late nineteenth-century for the first American ambassador to live in England and is apparently a copy of a similar property overlooking Lake Lugano in Switzerland. Unsurprisingly, there are magnificent views from the tower, which includes three bedrooms in the main part and a self-contained apartment right up at the top. Photograph: Fulfords/guardian.co.uk