What will less than £100,000 buy you in the UK property market?

This terraced cottage in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. A chic refurbishment has given this two-bedder a glossy finish while honouring its Victorian graces. The dining room has been opened out into a kitchen/breakfast room, from where unsightly appliances can be exiled to two cellar rooms. The garden is compact but landscaped to squeeze in a lawn, borders and a patio, and a common is close by for wider green expanses. Yours for £95,000.
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This house in Blyth, Northumberland. Potential is what this two-bed house offers. A couple of grand lavished on the decor would turn it into a compact but handsome home – even the narrow Tarmac strip that serves as a garden could be reborn into a floral corridor. There is, of course, a reason why it’s only £24,950: the street, while good-looking Victoriana, is near the docks in an area dense with rentals, and unemployment is a blight on the local community. It is, however, just a walk from the regenerated town centre and a short drive to the town’s beach.
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This flat in Carlisle. A one-bedder set amid communal gardens close to the river and a walk away from the city centre. Yours for £88,500, exposed brick walls and large windows in the bedroom and living room give it that urban ‘loft’ air, and the open-plan living and dining area improves the sense of space. Too many cooks will definitely come to blows in the squeezed kitchen, though, while storage heaters rather than central heating warm it through winter.
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This cottage near Diss. Admittedly, you’ll need to have a few grand more up your sleeve to modernise and possibly rethatch this £90,000 cottage in the Suffolk village of Stradbroke, although a tenant has lived here perfectly comfortably until now. Beams criss cross walls and ceilings inside, and there’s a quaint brick hearth in the large living room. The occupants of both bedrooms will have to commute downstairs and through the kitchen to the bathroom. Good-sized cottage gardens lie front and back and the rest of the village is similarly good looking. To be auctioned on 11 April.
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This house near Edinburgh. Bright and airy with decent-sized rooms, this three-bedder in Bathgate, west of Edinburgh, has housed two generations. Incomers might be unnerved by the bright carpets, but the kitchen has been refurbished in elegant cream, the bathroom upgraded with a swanky corner shower, and there’s a secluded hedged garden with decking. It’s leafily sited on the edge of town close to open countryside. On the market for £99,000.
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This flat in St Asaph, north Wales. A small flat it may be, but for £79,950 you command miles of Wales thanks to the views over the Clwydian hills from the stately communal gardens. It sits in a country estate in Llanerch Park, a short drive from St Asaph and Denbigh. The living room is more than 20 ft long with laminate flooring, a smart fireplace and curving walls, and there are two bedrooms, albeit narrow ones. Two parking spaces and an outside store are allocated, and there’s no onward chain.
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