Snooping around – in pictures

In town: Devon. First-time buyers can move straight into this semi in the centre of the Georgian coastal town of Modbury as the furniture is included. The colourful decor won’t suit every taste, but it has two bedrooms, a sitting/dining room and utility area. Outside it has an integral garage, although no garden. Cost: £189,000.
Marchand Petit
Photograph: Marchand Petit

In the country: Hampshire. You’d never guess from the Tudor exterior that inside this three-bed cottage in Micheldever would be a glass-walled kitchen. It’s a shame the stairs to one of the bedrooms lead up from another, and that the front door opens on to a road. But it’s well connected: there are trains direct to London. Yours for £385,000.
Jackson-Stops & Staff
Photograph: Jackson-Stops & Staff

Wreck of the week: Kent. A good £100,000-£150,000 is needed to scrape away the 1970s from this detached five-bedder in Westbere, near Canterbury. And that’s on top of the £325,000 asking price. But it has gardens of a quarter-of-an-acre and sits in a pretty village. Beware, however, that its sloping location makes it top heavy, and the downstairs is small with a hallway dining room and narrow kitchen.
Chesterton Humberts
Photograph: Chesterton Humberts

Bargain of the week: Cornwall. Although the 18th-century town of Torpoint is less coveted than neighbouring villages on the Rame peninsula, £152,500 is a good price for three bedrooms, two receptions and a newly fitted kitchen, all immaculately renovated. You can see the estuary from the back garden, which has its own rear entrance, and you are surrounded by an area of outstanding natural beauty – although not if you gaze across the water to the industrial rim of Plymouth, just a brief ferry crossing away.
Marchand Petit, 01752 829000
Photograph: Marchand Petit