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Worth the wait I just had such a lovely feeling, and I knew straight away it

was the one. We could see it had so much potential, and

we couldn’t wait to put our own stamp on it.

How one Dunfermline family found their dream home on ESPC.

ack in 2018, Lauren Drummond and we just couldn’t compete with. We were so
her husband Fraser were considering disheartened; we decided not to put the house
B moving on from their first family home on the market after all and keep looking.”
in Dunfermline. With two young children and
their cat Coco, the couple were ready for a Keep looking they did, and eventually, the house
change and some more space to stretch out of their dreams materialised: a late Victorian
but couldn’t find anything that felt quite ‘right’ semi-detached house close to Pittencrieff Park,
for them, as Lauren explains. packed with incredible period features.

“We started the process of selling
our house around a year before we
actually moved, but we decided not
to put it on the market as nothing
was coming up that we really loved.
We wanted to still live near the
city centre, close to our daughter’s
school, and we both knew we wanted
to live in a period property. I searched
the ESPC website almost every day
for about a year, just waiting for the
perfect property to pop up, and I
used to pick up the ESPC newspaper
on my way to work, and spend my
train journey to Edinburgh reading,
hoping something would be in there
for us.”

At last, a property did come up, but
it wasn’t quite the fairytale ending
Lauren had hoped for. “A house
came up that we were really keen
on; we viewed it twice, put in an offer
and put our house on the market.
Unfortunately, we lost out at a
closing date by over £30,000, which

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