After searching for a year in a heated property market, first-time buyers Lacey Richards and Aaron Coe finally got lucky with an unloved ex-rental house. As the owners were moving to Australia and wan

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Amanda Greaney and her husband Paul have lived in their Cambridge home for the past 20 years, and during that time they’ve completely transformed it. They moved in when their elder son, Joseph, was a