Snooping around – in pictures

In town: Shropshire. Yours for £139,995, this is a two-bed slice of Shrewsbury’s ex-Theatre Royal. The floor-to-ceiling windows offer great town views. It’s just a shame an estate agent sprawls across the ground floor.
Strutt & Parker
Photograph: Turkey Photography/Strutt & Parker

In the country: Suffolk. Bromeswell is the location of this three-bedder. It’s off a private driveway in 0.28 acres and is yours for £450,000. There are French doors from the living room to the garden and from the dining room to a conservatory. Unfortunately you have to go through one of the bedrooms, or go down and up two staircases, to get to the bathroom.
Jackson-Stops & Staff
Photograph: Jackson-Stops & Staff

Wreck of the week: Scottish Borders. This is a former hunting lodge in Halterburn, Kirk Yetholm, with five bedrooms, plus a separate two-bed gamekeeper’s cottage. It’s been a hotel, so you’ll need to lose the catering kitchen and public facilities, and redecorate the whole thing. But it’s got handsome period features, rugged views and income potential. It’s next to a working farm, which could be good or bad, and is remote, so can get cut off in winter. Yours for £400,000.
Smiths Gore
Photograph: Smiths Gore

Dream home: London. It’s a tricky situation: you hanker after a swimming pool while your other half aspires to a dancefloor. But fear not, this luxury pad in Totteridge Green, Barnet, can fulfill both dreams in one room – the flick of a switch turns your ballroom into a bathing room. This leads on to a sauna, a gym and a patio overlooking a sizeable garden. Elsewhere, a media room boasts a 50” TV and full surround sound, while the kitchen has all mod cons. All that, a drawing room, seven bedrooms and parking space for at least 10 cars is yours for £6m.
Godfrey & Barr, 020 8959 9000
Photograph: Godfrey & Barr