Search engine for cottages/countryside properties
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I REALLY struggled when we were looking for a cottage with a 10+ acres, there are websites like ruralscene that are good but very few peoperties listed
You can filter commercial properties on rightmove by the amount of land, occasionally a cottage pops up on this.
Zoopla lets you search for keywords like "Acres"
But apart from that, I would log on to rightmove every single morning and look through pages and pages of tripe looking for the odd gem.
You can filter commercial properties on rightmove by the amount of land, occasionally a cottage pops up on this.
Zoopla lets you search for keywords like "Acres"
But apart from that, I would log on to rightmove every single morning and look through pages and pages of tripe looking for the odd gem.
Edited by sidekickdmr on Monday 16th January 11:24
BrettMRC said:
Fed up with trawling through 100s of houses on the usual sites trying to find decent cottages that are not slap in the middle of a village/town.
Anyone know of a good search tool/site where I can search by garden size etc?
Thanks in advance
The only thing you can do to cut it down is to do a "drawn area" (right move) avoiding all the towns etc that you dont want to live in. Other than that, keep trawling. Any other approach means, inevitably, you will something of interest. Ask me how i know.......Anyone know of a good search tool/site where I can search by garden size etc?
Thanks in advance
use rightmove and draw a map that circles round all the major conurbations in the area you want to live
we are looking in Wilst, Hants, Berks so i've drawn round Basingstoke, Salisbury, Newbury, Winchester, Southampton etc etc
You can then wittle it down by looking for used properties, with gardens, above a certain size etc
You capture most countryside properties this way.
we are looking in Wilst, Hants, Berks so i've drawn round Basingstoke, Salisbury, Newbury, Winchester, Southampton etc etc
You can then wittle it down by looking for used properties, with gardens, above a certain size etc
You capture most countryside properties this way.
brrapp said:
Not sure where in the country you are, but round about here, almost every proper rural property/farm/smallholding is marketed by one single estate agent.
This.I'd narrow down broadly where. Then go and visit the area. You'll likely find 1 or 2 agents with the best properties....get them to earn their fees
I don't think anyone has mentioned www.ruralscene.co.uk yet?
It's for small holdings and farms around the UK. Search function is sh*t but you just have to live with that.
There's also another way - if you get a Land Registry login (bit of a phaff but worth it if you're motivated enough) you can then use their free map search function. Tap a postcode (better than a name of a town/village in my experience) and then you can see the boundaries of a given property have (it's brilliant). You can get the Title number and write to the owners or go and knock on the door (bit punchy that but you can if you want to). I'd write in the first instance.
As someone has said- typically in a rural area there's usually a stand out agent that seems to sell everything (sometimes - not always). Get to know them (take the manager out for a coffee - take donuts in for the staff on a friday or something) - make yourself memorable to them - tell them what you want - all you need is for them to pick the phone up if they get something similar to what you are looking for - gives you that edge potentially.
I'd also buy Farmers weekly and farmers guardian - often farms for sale in the back - sometimes even small holdings - often auction details too.
Picking the area is the hard part- finding the property thereafter is not easy of course but once you've established where you want to be you can then start getting to the know the local agents, keep visible (ring them, email them, keep you in their minds).
I'd also keep a sharp eye out for property that's been on the market for ages or seems to be part of a bigger picture - we found our small holding because the owners had given up trying to sell it as a smallholding but were just marketing the house on it's own - but the pictures in the sales particulars showed the stables and barn behind. so we went along to have a look and did the deal (sounds like it took 5 mins but in actual fact about 6 months as the vendor just wouldn't commit) on the entire small holding in the end.
Perseverence - keep going!
It's for small holdings and farms around the UK. Search function is sh*t but you just have to live with that.
There's also another way - if you get a Land Registry login (bit of a phaff but worth it if you're motivated enough) you can then use their free map search function. Tap a postcode (better than a name of a town/village in my experience) and then you can see the boundaries of a given property have (it's brilliant). You can get the Title number and write to the owners or go and knock on the door (bit punchy that but you can if you want to). I'd write in the first instance.
As someone has said- typically in a rural area there's usually a stand out agent that seems to sell everything (sometimes - not always). Get to know them (take the manager out for a coffee - take donuts in for the staff on a friday or something) - make yourself memorable to them - tell them what you want - all you need is for them to pick the phone up if they get something similar to what you are looking for - gives you that edge potentially.
I'd also buy Farmers weekly and farmers guardian - often farms for sale in the back - sometimes even small holdings - often auction details too.
Picking the area is the hard part- finding the property thereafter is not easy of course but once you've established where you want to be you can then start getting to the know the local agents, keep visible (ring them, email them, keep you in their minds).
I'd also keep a sharp eye out for property that's been on the market for ages or seems to be part of a bigger picture - we found our small holding because the owners had given up trying to sell it as a smallholding but were just marketing the house on it's own - but the pictures in the sales particulars showed the stables and barn behind. so we went along to have a look and did the deal (sounds like it took 5 mins but in actual fact about 6 months as the vendor just wouldn't commit) on the entire small holding in the end.
Perseverence - keep going!
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