Not many people move into a new home only to find enthusiastic strangers routinely turning up looking for a place to stay the night, but if the house in question was once a youth hostel sequestered in

For antiques dealer Val Foster and her husband Philip, part of the attraction of moving south from Nottinghamshire some five years ago was the prospect of making a new home. ‘We’d found a property whi

It’s not often that buyers fall in love with a house because of external factors. But, for Zoe and Lisa Hyland-Buckeridge, it was the large expanse of parking for their two family cars that won the co

A redesign of this Victorian terrace gave Emmajane Varley and her son Jasper all the space they needed

When our new-build estate became increasingly busy with lots of families, we decided to move somewhere a bit quieter with period features. At first, we made an offer on a different apartment, but the

Living in an old cottage in the Cotswolds, Vanessa Love wasn’t planning on a move 90 minutes away to Wiltshire, until her elderly mother, Ann, fell ill. ‘She was on her own, so I moved into her flat i