The best properties for sale for around £500,000

Properties for sale for around £500k – from a Grade II-listed Georgian former rectory in Stanhope, County Durham, to a 19th-century chateau in southwest France.

Gable Cottage, Upper Castle Combe, Castle Combe, Wiltshire.
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Natasha read politics at Sussex University. She then spent a decade in social care, before completing a postgraduate course in Health Promotion at Brighton University. She went on to be a freelance health researcher and sexual health trainer for both the local council and Terrence Higgins Trust.

In 2000 Natasha began working as a freelance journalist for both the Daily Express and the Daily Mail; then as a freelance writer for MoneyWeek magazine when it was first set up, writing the property pages and the “Spending It” section. She eventually rose to become the magazine’s picture editor, although she continues to write the property pages and the occasional travel article.