What will £500,000 buy you in the UK property market?

This flat in Bath. It is (officially) a flat, but not as most of us would know it. It spreads across two Georgian townhouses, a stroll through a handsome square to the city centre, and its tall sash windows overlook a golf course and Victoria Park. The reception and three bedrooms are capacious and gracefully ornamented with moulded plasterwork and a fireplace, but it shares a back garden with the neighbours. If you have this kind of money you’ll probably want to modernise some of the décor.
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This house in Lanarkshire. Dallas-style bling abounds in this small development in Coulter, near Biggar. The triple garage block alone is the size of a family house, while the hallway and family rooms are on an oligarchian scale. There are four receptions and two of the four bedrooms have en suites. Just shy of an acre of gardens overlook the surrounding hills.
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A flat in London. One- and two-bed flats in this London Docklands development, Maple Quays, start at £500,000. It’s not just floor space you’re paying for, but views from the 24-storey tower, the convenience of Canada Water station next door, a deckchair on the communal roof terrace, and a pass for the residents' gym. There are river walks all round and it’s one stop to Canary Wharf or 14 minutes to the West End.
Barratt Homes, 02072379311 Photograph: Barratt Homes

This house near Monmouth. Once an estate cottage, this four-bed home in Rockfield has been painstakingly renovated to reclaim its gothic roots. The new floors are of solid wood, the fireplaces have been reinstated, the windows reglazed and latticed, and the kitchen handmade. It’s an oddity that the master suite is on the lower ground floor, two storeys away from any resident children.
Click here or call Newland Rennie Wilkins, 01600 717053 Photograph: Newland Rennie Wilkins

This four-bed house in North Yorkshire. Linked by its adjoining cart house to a neighbour, this sits on the green in the ravishing Dales village of West Burton, near Leyburn. Both the cart house and the barn in the garden have heating and electricity with potential to absorb household expansion. The terraced gardens lead up to an orchard and, beyond that, a half-acre of paddock.
Click here or call JR Hopper & Co, 01969 678190 Photograph: JR Hopper & Co