{"id":1160207,"date":"2026-08-20T23:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1160207\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:57:16","slug":"rural-property-market-castles-to-cottages-what-buyers-can-expect-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1160207\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural property market: castles to cottages, what buyers can expect to pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national average asking price for a cottage listing is \u00a3675,000, covering 3.09 acres and spending an average of 93 days on the market.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0376_639228396466152363.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>London records the highest average asking price at \u00a31.75 million for properties averaging 9.1 acres and 67 days on the market. For those seeking a more traditional rural setting, the South East&#8217;s average stands at \u00a3975,000.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland again offers the most competitive pricing, with an average of \u00a3320,000 for 7.7 acres, with listings having been on the market for an average of 84 days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Adam Morris of\u00a0LandSale\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0376_639228409473122677.png\" style=\"width: 30%; height: 30%; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;\"\/>&#8220;Escaping to the country can mean very different things to different buyers,&#8221; said Adam Morris (pictured right), founder of\u00a0LandSale. &#8220;For some, the dream may be a historic castle or a working vineyard, while for others it is a characterful barn conversion or cottage with enough land to create a genuine sense of rural living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The national average asking price for a cottage listing is \u00a3675,000, covering 3.09 acres and spending an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,22572,12327,393,4884,1144,315127,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1160207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-castles","tag-cottages","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-northern-ireland","tag-rural-property","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117130550974106674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}