Our passion for all things property started with the search for our first family home in Cape Town, South Africa. After two years of researching the housing market and visiting many properties for sale, we finally found the perfect property – a tired, run-down property that just oozed potential. The joy of renovating that first property stayed with us and lead to a few more property projects in Cape Town.
A career move to the UK in 2012 lead to us purchasing a lovely Victorian piece of granite, more commonly known as “the money pit.” The next few years were spent balancing working life, three young children, and on-going renovations. I’ll never forget that first summer when we endured two months of dust and noise as the entire slate roof was replaced followed by pointing walls, damp proofing most of the bottom floor, decorating and renovating bathrooms. We learned many valuable lessons along the way!
After a few years of enjoying our home and religiously watching almost every episode of Homes Under the Hammer, I met Martin Roberts at a property event and the bug bit again … properly this time! We now have a portfolio of rental properties we’re proud of.
Each of these properties started out as an ugly duckling (think swirly carpets and flowery wall paper!) but has been transformed into a modern, high-quality family home.
