Close to home: Horsham tipped as a Help to Buy hotspot as 10 per cent of new-builds are sold to first-time buyers

Nearly 10 per cent of new-build properties in Horsham are going to first-time buyers, Emma Chuter was one of them
Anna White8 May 2018

Rather than move to London, sales executive Emma Chuter went from living with her family in the West Sussex market town of Horsham to buying her own place locally.

Emma found a two-bedroom flat with a balcony overlooking woodland using Help to Buy at Kilnwood Vale, a Crest Nicholson development. The new England-style two-, three-, four- and five-bedroom homes with white wooden rendering are built around a miniature lake.

The scheme is in the middle of the pretty village of Faygate and surrounded by bridleways, footpaths and cycle tracks, so there are plenty of places for Emma to walk her dog, Harper.

“I’m out in the country but never more than half an hour away from where I need to be,” she says.

Sales executive Emma Chuter at her two-bedroom home near Horsham
Richard Eaton

Faygate station has regular trains to London and Brighton and it’s 10 minutes from Gatwick airport. Prices start from £223,960 (crestnicholson.com/kilnwoodvale; 01293 852501).

Kilnwood Vale, a Crest Nicholson development

Latest data shows nearly 10 per cent of new-build homes in the local authority area of Horsham going to first-time buyers and 90 per cent of newly built units are below £600,000.

And if new-builds are not for you...

For those who aspire to buy a chocolate-box cottage rather than a new-build home to complete their country life dream, this half-tile hung property at Graylands Farm Cottages in West Sussex dates back to the late 1800s and is on the market with Strutt & Parker for £525,000. Call 01403 246790.

Half-tile hung property at Graylands Farm Cottages in West Sussex

For the price of a decent two-bedroom London flat this former farmhouse has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and three reception rooms, a sitting room with a fireplace, flagstone hearth and wood-burning stove, a boot room, pantry and big back garden.

It’s three miles from Horsham which has a John Lewis, Waitrose, Pavilions leisure centre and a mainline station with 55-minute trains to Victoria and London Bridge.

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