Freehold property for sale

It's crucial to understand the difference between a freehold and leasehold properties before you climb on the housing ladder. A freehold property means you have complete ownership of the building and land. You are in total control of it's maintenance and day-to-day running and essentially you can do what you like with it, as long as you stay within local property and planning legislation. In a leasehold property, on the other hand, you buy the right to to live in the property for a defined period of time and the freehold owner still retains control. In a leasehold you also have to opportunity to buy a share of the freehold. This process is called enfranchisement.

24% of current homes for sale have 2 bedrooms, whereas 36% have 3 bedrooms.

The standard deviation of house prices for the results of this search is 318,532.

84% of the live properties are houses, however 16% of them are flats.

The average house price for UK freehold property is currently £311,361, 2% higher than the national average value for all homes which is £304,937.

3,311 new property listings for this search have been found in the last calendar day, compared with 8,967 in the last 72 hours and 18,529 in the last week.