Owning your own home

'Ecoair DD1 simple' is what I've been using for past few years, 300/600w consumption desiccant type.
If your planning on it using it in low temp areas (anything under about 16c TBH) a compressor type will keep freezing up, then having to thaw itself then rinse and repeat, they only really work IME between 20-35c
I use our one pretty much exclusively for drying out cars that are stored outside (before/after them being worked on and going to their new homes), which in winter means has to operate between 0-10c all the time. In these conditions desiccant all the way. In a house depends how you are using it.
Have been using ours during a recent renovation where needed to speed up the process a little with mortar, plaster of various types, paints and gloss. Using a 600w desiccant was getting the 16-20m2 room from....
8c and 80-100% humidity to approx 15c and 40% humidity in around 6-8 hours and then holding it there. Found that 15c is a nice temp to work at indoors in winter! The added bonus of it being dry feeling is your sweat dissappears nice and fast too!

Have also used that exact unit to attempt to dry a recently flooded basement in a mates tenement (old laundry space which is partially below ground level). Once water had been pumped out we left it in there for about 20 days with a big fan running all the time (moving it every few days) to stir the air up along walls, running through a supplied hose into a bucket that we emptied every day. Yes a professional size multi KW machine would have done it a lot faster , but it was a mate with zero insurance and zero ability to pay £50 a day to hire such a beast + the massive electric bill to go with it.