Country houses are hit by a rural retreat After a year of gains, the first signs that grand country house prices are falling too MARKET WATCH

From: Mail on Sunday | Date: October 10, 2004| Author: SEBASTIAN O'KELLY | Copyright information

The past two years have not been kind to Londoners desperate to leave for a new life in the shires.

While property prices in the city have been virtually static, elsewhere they have been soaring, eroding the premium that London property has always enjoyed over that of its country cousins.

But now there are the first indications that the market in cottages and pretty period farmhouses is faltering. According to Knight Frank's Country House Index, prices fell by 0.3 per cent in t...

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