It's Fife, but not as we know it

Beazer Homes currently has a number of incentives on its three and four-bedroom houses at Milesmark Gardens. These include 100% part-exchange, carpets or 5% deposit paid for those who can move in soon. Included in the current range of house types available at Milesmark Gardens is the three-bedroom detached Dundas, priced #87,250, which has a combined lounge and dining room, fully fitted kitchen with a separate utility room, bathroom, as well as an en suite master bedroom.

Prices at the development range from #70,995 to #110,500. For further details, telephone 01506 411 000. Dunfermline has a number of historical attractions, most notably Pittencrieff Park, which has a museum, paddling pool and children's farmyard area.

Other amenities include a pedestrianised high street, the Kingsgate Shopping Centre and nearby Halbeath is set to be the home of the new #25m Fife Leisure Park. Many of the latest developments are aimed at those with young families and its proximity to Edinburgh, both by train and by road has made it popular among those working in the capital. With good motorway links to Stirling Perth and Dundee, it is also within commuting distance of a large part of the East of Scotland.

Redrow Homes has a variety of house sizes for sale at its Masterton Park development in Dunfermline, ranging from two-bedroom terrace houses to four-bedroom villas, such as the Rhodes style, priced #114,750. Downstairs it has colonial-style double doors linking the dining room and the lounge while the kitchen has a separate utility room. Upstairs, the master bedroom has an en suite shower room and fitted wardrobes.

A sales office at Masterton Park is open Thursday to Monday from 10am to 5.30pm, telephone 01383 625 432 or visit the company's website on www.redrow.co.uk. Persimmon Homes has also released the last of its three and four-bedroom homes for sale at the company's Larches development in Dunfermline.

Prices range from #76,000 for the three-bedroom semi-detached Hambleton, which has patio doors opening to the back garden to around #115,000 for the four-bedroom detached Kelso which has an integrated garage. The on-site sales office is open Thursday to Monday, from 11am to 5.30pm, telephone 01383 623 687 or visit the company's website at www.persimmonhomes.com. Another new development in Dunfermline is Wilcon Homes' Duloch Grange, consisting of four and five-bedroom villas with views over hills and the Firth of Forth.

Prices range from #90,995 to #127,995. For further details, telephone 0131 339 2412 or visit the house builder's website on www.wilcon.co.uk. Wilcon recently opened a showhome at its Ridgemont Manor in nearby Dalgety Bay.

The four-bedroom Woodford has a downstairs study along with a lounge, dining room, kitchen and utility room.

There are 26 four-bedroom detached homes at Ridgemont Manor, with prices ranging from #110,995 to #144,995.

A sales office at the development is open daily from 11am to 5.30pm, telephone 01383 625 485.