Trading up, trading down – in pictures

Trading up: Scottish borders. You can take your favourite neighbours with you if you go halves on this £625,000 Victorian mansion, because its four elegant receptions and nine bedrooms have been divided into two self-contained homes in two and a half acres. It's screened from the town of Coldstream by an aristocratically long driveway and looks out over the Cheviot Hills, over which you can gallop on the horse housed in your stable and coach house.
Smiths Gore Photograph: Smiths Gore

Trading up: Northamptonshire. The front rooms overlook open fields to the parish church of Haselbech, and the three bedrooms absorb rolling farmland vistas. A 20ft conservatory-style dining room opens off the kitchen. Half the double garage has been converted into a fourth bedroom-cum-office. Yours for £295,000.
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Trading down: Whitby. From the box bay window of this period conversion flat you can look over Sandsend Bay from Sandsend Ness to Whitby Abbey. The £225,000 price tag includes that rare commodity in the Yorkshire village of Sandsend: private beachside parking for up to three cars. This top-floor, two-bedroom layer of a Victorian building is 30 metres from the beach and retains its original doors and panelling.
Smiths Gore
Photograph: Smiths Gore

Trading down: Wiltshire. This dollop of thatch in an idyllic location in Kington Langley squeezes a lot into its tininess including an inglenook fireplace in the living room. There is also a luxuriously sized en suite with a roll-top bath and double shower off the large bedroom and an elegant sliver of kitchen opening onto a floriferous courtyard. It needn't be one-bedroom if you compromised on the proportions of the master suite. On the market for £159,999.
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Bargain of the week: east London. This one-bedroom ex-council flat on a high-rise estate is worth around £375,000 but has been reduced to £325,000 for a quick sale. The Golden Lane estate has become an affluent des res because of its proximity to the Barbican, which was designed by the same architects, and the City. The balcony and the large windows overlook a large courtyard and original sliding doors can open the bedroom into the living room. A swimming pool and badminton and tennis courts are shared by residents at preferential rates. Beware, each owner may have to contribute up to £50,000 for major refurbishments to the block.
The Modern House Photograph: The Modern House