The process of moving house is never easy. After moving three times in as many years we knew what to expect. Our previous house was a typical three storey Victorian town house with its fair share of problems. Having no hot water for a week in February when the boiler blew up had convinced us to look for more modern accommodation this time around. Looking for a three-bedroom place in September is, as we found out, damn near impossible.
University is about to begin and it seems every student wants good value three-bed accommodation.
Three weeks saw us visit many parts of London we would rather not know existed, to view flats and houses which sounded like palaces in the adverts but were, to be complimentary, hovels. We'd been through all this before but this time round prices seemed higher and accommodation far thinner on the ground. Then came salvation in the form of a lettings agent who actually returned one of the multitude of messages we had left. This property was so modern it was still being built. Wonderful, we thought as we trotted along to view it.