Snooping around: Rural, urban and renovation

In town: Chichester. £295,000. This gated development backs on to the Festival Theatre and is 400 yards from city centre shops. The west-facing balcony of this two-bedder looks over a 16th-century bell tower, and there are communal gardens to enjoy. The study, with its single Velux window, however, could feel claustrophobic.
Jackson-Stops & Staff, 01243 786316 Photograph: Jackson-Stops & Staff

In the country: Essex. This three-bedder in White Colne is fetchingly embedded in foliage behind its pretty garden. It has an unusually large sitting room, a subsidiary reception room, a study and a breakfasting kitchen. It’s a shame the main garden is rather publicly to the front. Yours for £260,000.
John D Wood, 01245 344222 Photograph: John D Wood

Wreck of the week: London. About £100,000 should fund gutting and restarting on this derelict three-bed end-of-terrace. But that’s on top of the £475,000 price tag. However, that buys you a good address in Southfields, SW18. It being London, however, the garden is disappointingly small.
Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, 020 8871 9655 Photograph: Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward

Dream home: Stirlingshire. This three-bed farm in the village of Croftamie comes with a steading that needs renovation, a range of modern outbuildings and a paddock of about 2.8 acres. It would make the perfect project for someone wanting to try their hand at becoming a smallholder, and the owner is looking for offers in excess of £375,000. If you are more ambitious in your farming abilities, another 132 acres of permanent pasture is available as a separate lot for offers in excess of £270,000.
CKD Galbraith, 0141 953 3089 Photograph: CKD Galbraith

Overseas home: South Africa. Sitting in 2.5 acres of land within the 35,000-acre Blue Canyon Conservancy, this luxury three-bed lodge is a wildlife lover’s paradise – an abundance of lions, elephants, leopards and rhinos freely roam the nearby reserve. The property itself boasts a master bedroom suite that overlooks the swimming pool, and is yours for £460,000. Nearby Hoedspruit, which has an airport offering two flights a day to Johannesburg, is a well-served bush town with supermarkets, restaurants, coffee shops and bars.
Cotton & Co, 01284 700462 Photograph: Cotton & Co