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AT HOME WITH...

THE BRIGHT SIDE Back in 2018, senior digital to know that there would be a

designer Louise Brown, 28, was home waiting for us to find, after
Digital Designer Louise Brown found hoping to find a two-bedroom all of our hard work saving for a
her dream home in Edinburgh on ESPC. home in the West End of deposit. Being able to shortlist
Three years on, she shows us around her Edinburgh where she and her properties on the app and look
beautiful home and shares her experience partner Luke, and their cat Gizzy, at similar properties that had
of being a first-time buyer in the Capital, could stretch out and put their previously sold in the area
as well as her plans for the property.
own stamp on things. But when really helped us to understand
they took a chance and viewed valuations and judge overbids
a one-bedroom property in the appropriately.
coveted colonies in Shandon, the
couple knew that they’d found How did you find this property,
their ideal home. and how did you know it was
‘the one’?
Since they got the keys just We’d been viewing on and off for
over three years ago, Louise six months, and we’d had to think
and Luke have fulfilled their hard about our must-haves, like
ambitions to personalise their outdoor space, and what we were
property, while staying true to its willing to compromise on. We had
Victorian heritage, documenting always rented period properties
the process along the way on in the past, and as Edinburgh is
Instagram. Now, Louise shares so full of amazing character and
with us the process of purchasing charm, we loved the idea of living
their first property in the Capital, somewhere that had a thousand
and their plans for property tales to tell.
number two…
Our original plan was to find a
You’ve been in your home a two-bed property, but after we
little while now, but casting lost out to a few in the same area,
your mind back, what was your we saw this one come on the
experience like as a first-time market. It was a one-bed, but as
buyer? it was a good size, we decided
Initially, we began searching in it was still worth a look. We
a very competitive market. We’d immediately fell in love with the
been renting for a few years in charm of the colonies, both the
the West End, and we hoped to stunning Victorian features and
stay quite close to the area, as we the community of people here.
already knew and loved it. We knew as soon as we walked
in, this was the right place for
I’m an avid online property us. It had only been listed on the
browser, across all the apps and market that morning, and by the
websites, especially ESPC! It afternoon, it was ours!
just felt like a dream come true

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