Two weeks ago Ben went to see a financial adviser to find out about setting up a pension. In conversation he happened to mention that we were trying to save up for a house deposit. The adviser just happened to be linked with a broker who deals with a shared equity scheme for Bovis - a scheme I might add that is pretty cool as you don't even have to pay rent on the part of the property that the developer retains, you just need to pay them back within 10 years (so selling the house would cover that).
Hmm, we thought.
Last Sunday we cycled over to this local estate and had a look at the block of four flats available on this scheme. And what do you know? As soon as the lady handed us the key we walked up an inclining road (I can hardly use the word hill in Norfolk!) And there were more people around than we expected. But thankfully there were no sunken beds in sight.
A sunny day, French doors from the bedroom to the south facing garden, an open plan kitchen/dinner/lounge and it being on "Lobelia Lane" were all we needed to fall in love!
Today we went to see it again and put down our holding deposit so it's ours! We're waiting for some legal details before we can start the process and it won't be complete for another 10 weeks or so, but this seems to have fallen into our laps in some divinely inspired way.
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Wow, that's so exciting! Can't wait to hear more and see pics etc!!
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