New-build homes for first-time buyers in England – in pictures From a flat in a new urban village in London to a family-sized home in a rural village in Norfolk A four-bedroom chalet-style home surrounded by farmland the village of Pott Row, Norfolk. regeneration project to create a new town of 15,000 homes close to the coast in north-west Kent. Just two miles from Bluewater shopping centre, Ebbsfleet Cross is a collection of one-, two- and three-bedroom homes in parkland. There is a second-floor, one-bedroom flat with 50 sq metres of floor space.
The hallway opens into an open-plan kitchen-dining room and living space with access to a balcony. The angled double-bedroom is alongside. A train from Ebbsfleet to London St Pancras takes about 18 minutes. _£224,995._ _Foxtons,020 7133 7744_ skipping the traditional first rung of the ladder and buying a family-sized home, there’s this chalet-style, four-bedroom house in Russell Court, a rural development in a small village surrounded by farmland.
It is three miles to the east of King’s Lynn and close to Sandringham and the Norfolk Coast National Landscape. It has two bedrooms on the ground floor and two upstairs next to the family bathroom. There’s underfloor heating downstairs and an air source heat pump.
Energy efficiency rating is B. _£425,000._ _Sowerbys, 01553 766 741_ village is completed, there will be 6,700 homes and 50 shops, restaurants and cafes. There are 20 hectares (50 acres) of parkland plus indoor facilities. In the Ashbee building there’s a studio apartment on the ground floor with a private courtyard.
Residents have access to a lounge, a gym and a cinema room, and there’s a concierge service, too. Claremont Park is on the doorstep, North London’s newest park and a new station (Brent Cross West) with a service into central London in about 12 minutes. _£399,000._ _Brent Cross Town, 020 3319 0729_ the River Lea is the Waterside scheme of one- and two-bedroom apartments. Details of the government’s Your First Home scheme (similar to the scrapped help to buy) are expected in the upcoming budget.
In the meantime, the developer is offering its own incentive: a £20,000 contribution towards stamp duty costs. On the seventh floor is a one-bedroom flat with a balcony. The layout is halved, with the open-plan living area on one side and the bedroom suite and bathroom, on the other.
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