Trading up, trading down

Trading up: North Yorkshire. Commuting will be a speedy business up or down the nearby A66 from this Grade II listed house at Greta Bridge in North Yorkshire. And the homecoming will be equally satisfying. When you’ve stowed your transport in the double garage you step through the front door into a beamed dining room with an Aga in the hearth and can select a reviving bottle from the cellars beneath. The chief of the four bedrooms has an en suite and there’s a paddock beyond the large gardens. On the market for £440,000 through George F White, 01833 690 390 Photograph: PR

Trading up: Frinton-on-Sea: A monument to the arts and crafts aesthetic in the middle of Frinton-on-Sea in Essex. The sitting room (as opposed to the separate, bay-windowed drawing room, has aristocratically panelled walls and a door onto a front terrace; the dining room (not to be confused with the breakfast room) is over 18ft with timbered walls and a door onto the 80ft garden. You can glimpse the sea from the master chamber and the 23ft sixth bedroom is spacious enough to be split in two. On the market for £599,000 through Fenn Wright, 01206 763388 Photograph: PR

Trading down: London. If £375,000 seems an expensive fee for shrinkage, it’s because Regent's Park is up the road and Marylebone station round the corner. There’s only one bedroom and an open-plan kitchen-living room but it is chic compactness - white walls and floors and glossy black kitchen fittings and the West End is within walking distance.
Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, 020 7486 5551 Photograph: PR

Trading down: Cornwall. Reduce your circumstances in style with in this two-bedroom Cornish cottage overlooking Blisland village green and backing onto the churchyard. The local inn was voted Camra Pub of the Year. The lack of garden will only be a minor disappointment given the surrounding green and Bodmin Moor which starts just beyond the village. It’s been a popular holiday let and is immaculately presented inside with beamed bedrooms and an open-plan kitchen-living area. On the market for £195,000 through waterfrontandcountryhomes.com, 01872 273473 Photograph: PR

Over the sea: Florida. The Florida city of Winter Park was planned as a resort for the wealthy at the turn of the last century and its cultural and aesthetic charms still linger. This five-bedroom, four-bathroom house sits in its own half acre on the shores of a private lake. The rooms are huge and recently glamorised with Travertine floors and wall-to-floor windows overlooking the water. There’s a Tuscan-style bar on the terrace and a boathouse at the end of a private jetty. Orlando is the nearest airport. On the market for £409,189 Tdorlando.com +407 705 2616. Photograph: PR