If you're looking for a development opportunity then you may be interested to hear that the Old House in Brentwood is due to go under the hammer with a reserve price of £700,000.

Estate agents and auctioneers, Savills will hold the auction at the The Marriott Hotel, in Grosvenor Square, London, on November 2.

The Grade II-listed building will come with a planning brief specifying it should be used in a way to benefit the community. The purchaser need not stick to this planning stipulation, but any other use would have to be applied for via the borough council.