LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

Strolling down the leafy suburban street, you would not think you were in the middle of a busy London borough. It was this peaceful charm, an echo of her childhood in the New Forest, that led Aoife Kenny to this idyllic corner of Brixton.

‘The first thing I fell in love with was the road,’ says Aoife. ‘It’s a really leafy cul-de-sac with cats lolling everywhere. The sort of thing you would find in a country village, but it’s in the middle of London.’ Her viewing of the house – the 30th property she’d been to see