Blackbird Leys Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire

At £395,000, this home is priced around 26.5% below the local average per square foot, making the asking price a clear opportunity to acquire. The three-bedroom house is usable as it stands, with a relatively current kitchen, a bright conservatory and a generous rear garden; the work is light, focused mainly on refreshing some dated bedroom finishes and improving the patchy lawn.

The generous plot gives scope to explore further development, subject to planning permission, while the visible solar panels are another useful feature. The garden and conservatory are worth inspecting closely, and the photographs do not establish their condition in detail.