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A huge farmhouse that mixes Georgian charm with an 80 foot party barn and a swimming pool
If the Christmas and New Year period left you hankering after a home where you could really go to town with your celebrations, Julie Harding has the answer: a house with a huge party barn.
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The 12 biggest country property sales of 2025, from 'one of the finest homes in the Cotswolds' to a £5 million cottage in Cornwall
Momentum came and went during 2025, but agents around the UK showed time and again that exceptional country houses continue to sell, proving that quality and sensible pricing still cut through uncertainty. Penny Churchill reports.
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Country Life's top 10 property articles of 2025, from the homes of JFK and Alan Titchmarsh to the castle for sale for the first time in 700 years
We look back at the most popular property articles of 2025 on the Country Life website.
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Four homes fit for Father Christmas, from dream chimneys and reindeer stables to a house — with sleigh parking — on North Pole Road
It's the time of year when we stop and wonder what Father Christmas is doing to get ready for his big day — and just as importantly, the sort of house he'd need to live in to prepare.
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The Christmas sales reach the property market: Six beautiful houses that have had their prices reduced
From the Kent coast and the hills of Dorset to a bona fide country house just 20 minutes from central London, these fine homes have all had recent price cuts.
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New Place Manor is actually 700 years old — look inside this magnificent medieval home in Sussex
Never has a descriptor been so inaptly used as the 'new' in New Place Manor, a glorious old home in the countryside on the edge of Pulborough.
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The dream ski chalet for sale: A woodland paradise in The Rocky Mountains
Each week, James Fisher fantasises about a dream ski chalet he'd like to buy, but can't — from architecturally striking marvels, to cosy mountain retreats, and everything in between. This week, we are off to The Rockies, to get lost in the trees.
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What will happen in the property market in 2026? Britain's top experts share their predictions, and it's good news all round
The property market has been through years of volatility — but are things finally settling back to some sort of normal? Annabel Dixon spoke to Britain's foremost property analysts to get their thoughts.
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Spectacular Scottish castles and estates for sale
A look at the finest castles, country houses and estates for sale in Scotland today.
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Best country houses for sale this week
A spectacular Scottish home with a price tag £550,000 is one of the gems this week.
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An immaculate Georgian rectory where the halls really have been decked in boughs of holly
Stour Provost Manor is a gorgeous riverside home for sale in Dorset that's been dressed for Christmas.
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A picture-perfect home in 'the loveliest market town in North Yorkshire'
One of the most beautiful homes in one of Yorkshire's most beautiful towns is in search of a new owner. Penny Churchill takes a look.
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18 beautiful houses for sale, from a home counties dream to a private island with its own castle, as seen in Country Life
We take a look at some of the best houses to come to market via Country Life this week.
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Turn left at the most remote village on the British mainland
This self-sufficient dream home is for sale at £395,000, and if you don't fall in love with it too then I don't know if we can ever be friends.
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'We’re in the golden era of family life': The rather lovely accidental up-side of the wildly spiralling cost of housing
House prices have massively outstripped rises in average income in the last few years, according to new research — yet it's not all bad news. Toby Keel reports.
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A picture-perfect home that's so Country Life it even has an Aga in the gym
The East House is the prettiest house in an idyllic North Yorkshire village — and it has some surprises within, as Penny Churchill discovers.
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Property with potential: Renovation projects for sale, starting from just £170,000
From Cumbrian cottages and grand country houses down on their luck, these homes will fire your imagination.
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A magnificent old vicarage with five bedrooms, 5,000sq ft of space, and in the catchment area for the 'best state school in North Yorkshire'
The wonderful village of Burton Leonard is one of the most sought-after places to live in Yorkshire, and one of its finest homes is now for sale. Penny Churchill looks inside.
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When Chelsea was grazing and pasture, not gazing and posture, this house was a Georgian dairy. Now it's a townhouse on SW3's swishest street
Will Hosie takes a look at The Old Dairy, a beautiful old home in SW3 that's seen the entire area grow up around it.
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18 country houses across Britain, from £400,000 to £4 million, as seen in Country Life
Our look at the homes to come to the market via Country Life this week picks out a charming Kent cottage and an Arts and Crafts house in Leicestershire.
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Can you buy happiness? The latest list of Britain's happiest places, and what you could end up with if you moved there
Can you buy happiness? Of course not, but you can buy a nicer house in a better town... and, well, that's probably going to help quite a bit.
