Home Counties commuter homes: Surrey, Kent and Essex

Ruth Bloomfield has done the maths: rural house prices make a move out to the countryside easier for London's young families
25 February 2016

Countryside homes: Surrey

(Above left) £449,950: three-bedroom house in Staines Upon Thames, Surrey TW18
(Above right) £420,000: five-bedroom house in Ashford, Kent TN25

Ashford, Kent

(Above left) £750,000: five-bedroom new-build house in Billericay, CM12
(Above right) £700,000: five-bedroom house in Little Waltham, Chelmsford, Essex

Essex: good schools and countryside

© John Lawrence
Hugo and his mum, Lucy, are both thriving on country livihng - incentive enough for Dad, Tom, to cope with his daily 90-minute commute to the City

Swapping Notting Hill for West Berkshire

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