Brian Page offers a round-up of properties to rent in around york – from a period family home to a town house in the heart of the city.

“THIS property is finished to the highest of standards,” the team from Linley and Simpson say of a rather splendid executive home in Stockton-on-Forest.

The living-room is a spacious, comfortable spot with a wallmounted electric fire.

There is an open-plan family and dining-room which flows through to a modern breakfast kitchen with appliances including a range cooker, fridge-freezer, dishwasher and microwave and with a utility room.

The master bedroom has fitted wardrobes and an en-suite shower room and there is a guest bedroom suite with en-suite and three further bedrooms. With a pleasant, mature, walled landscaped garden to the rear and a double garage this is a high-quality home.

Linley and Simpson are looking for a rental of £1,995pcm.

That is a hard act to follow but Hudson Moody are ready to try – they have a splendid period home in Newton Terrace, in the soughtafter Bishophill area, within the city walls and close to the city centre.

On offer here is a reception hall off which there is a sitting-room and a dining-room – both with impressive period fireplaces. The kitchen has a range of Shaker-style wall and base units with a stable door out to the rear courtyard.

On the first floor there are two bedrooms and a house bathroom and there is a further bedroom with en-suite shower room on the second floor.

There’s a small forecourt garden to the front and a courtyard garden to the rear. Hudson and Moody are asking £1,350pcm.

Next we are in Heworth Village to cast our eyes over a smart terrace home on the books of Linley and Simpson. Here you have a diningroom, sitting-room, kitchen with oven, gas hob, washing-machine, fridge and dishwasher and two double bedrooms and a single bedroom/ study and a bathroom. There is a further double bedroom to the second floor. There is the bonus here of a double garage. The rental is £1,095pcm.

If you are looking for a goodsize house within easy walking distance of the city centre then pop along to Emerald Street, where you will find a lovely terrace house also ideally situated for the district hospital and Nestlé.

Offered furnished, it provides a vestibule and hallway, and a sitting-room with period fireplace.

The dining-room also has wood flooring and period touches. The good-size kitchen has a duel-fuel cooker, fridge- freezer and washing- machine and there is a cloakroom.

Upstairs you will find three double bedrooms and a bathroom.

This home is on the books of Letters Ltd but is only available until mid-June 2015.

Here is one right in the heart of York (yet tucked away in a peaceful quarter) in St Andrewgate, “a spacious city centre house of character” as the letting agents Stephensons put it.

Set over three floors there is an interesting layout which gives you a ground-floor lounge, a first-floor kitchen and dining-room and box room and three bedrooms on a second floor. There is a real bonus in the shape of a garage (like gold dust in city centre locations).

Stephensons have set a rental of £959pcm.

And now we will round things up with a pair of modern millies on the books of Ashtons – both contemporary homes offered on an unfurnished basis.

The first, in Slessor Road, is a three-storey end townhouse. The rental is £795pcm.

And then we have a modern townhouse in Foss Court, Huntington, with two bedrooms.. Allocated parking is included in the rental of £650pcm.