Anyone trying to buy a house when the market is hot will understand the pain of seeing properties snapped up in minutes. In 2013, when Candice and Angus Hart decided to leave London for the Home Counties, no amount of viewings, offers or flexibility around location was getting them anywhere near a new home.
‘I don’t think anything was on the market for more than five minutes so once we settled on Haslemere in Surrey, we decided to rent,’ explains Angus. It was while celebrating their daughter’s third