Site help
Searching
Sale or Rent
Before searching, choose either 'For Sale' or 'For Rent' in the navigation menu at the top of the page.
Price range
Enter the minimum and maximum prices you are searching within. If you don't have a minimum price, leave this field blank, similarly if you don't have a maximum price leave it blank.
Use the 'Fixed price only' checkbox if you are only interested in seeing fixed price adverts.
("For Sale" searches only.)
Locations
The Locations list can be expanded and collapsed using the 
and 
buttons. Expanding a Location will reveal its sub-locations.
Clicking reveals sub-locations.
Clicking collapses the list once more.
Select and deselect locations by clicking their names.
Once selected, locations are highlighted
Clicking a location selects it.
Clicking a top-level location selects it and the locations it contains.
The numbers in brackets indicate the number of properties matching your current search criteria in each location.
Once you have chosen your locations, press the Search button to see your new results.
Attributes
- Bedrooms: Select the minimum number of bedrooms you require. The search will return only properties with that number or more.
- Heating: If you have a preferred heating type, select it from the drop-down list.
- Garage: If you only want properties with a garage, tick the box marked 'Garage'.
- Garden: If you only want properties that have a garden, tick the box marked 'Garden'.
- Furnished: If you are only interested in properties that are furnished, tick the box marked 'Furnished'
("For Rent" searches only). - Student-friendly: If you are looking for properties that are suitable for students, tick the box marked 'Student-friendly' ("For Rent" searches only).
- New builds: If you are looking to buy a New Build property, select 'Yes' from the drop-down list. If you don't want New Build properties in your search, select 'No' ("For Sale" searches only).
- Commercial properties: To search for Commercial properties, select 'Yes' from the drop-down list. If you want to exclude Commercial properties, select 'No'.
Options
If your search returns too many results, enter keywords to narrow down the result set. Town and street names make good keywords.
Use the checkboxes to select the types of properties you are interested in. For example, if you are searching for houses and flats you should tick both of these boxes. If you are only interested in houses, you should only tick the box marked 'Houses'.
Saved searches & email alerts
Saved Searches allow you to store your preferred search criteria. You can then quickly search again at any time, or receive email alerts when new adverts match your search.
Look for the 
'Save this search' links at the top of search result pages.
A checkbox next to each Saved Search enables you to subscribe or unsubscribe from receiving by email when new properties match your search. If you already subscribed to our 'headlines by email' service, you will find your property alerts are combined with your daily update email.
You must register to use the Saved Searches.
Clippings
Clippings are a form of bookmarking. They enable you to quickly return to adverts that you have previously found.
Look for the 
'Add to clippings' link at the top of every property advert.
When creating a Clipping you will be prompted to provide a description and some tags.
Descriptions allow you to store notes about the property (e.g. 'near a good school, has a big garden').
Tags are a form of keyword categorisation. As there is no limit to the number of Clippings you can store, you may find tags are useful when browsing your collection. Store a list of tags with each Clipping (e.g. 'Victorian house, off-street parking, 2 bedrooms').
You must register to use the Clippings.
RSS feeds
RSS is a standard format for distributing website data.
Look for 
'RSS' icons at the top of every search result page - these link to the corresponding RSS feeds.
When used with an RSS Reader the feeds allow you to be notified whenever new properties match your search criteria.
For more information on RSS and its uses, please read our XML Feed FAQs.
Technical support
If you have any difficulty using this site, or have a question not answered on this page, please don't hesitate to let us know - our contact form will send your queries directly to us.