We almost didn’t view this house,’ says Becks, ‘as it was right at the top of our budget and three times bigger than our previous place. We’d bought a small terraced house in Leeds during our twenties before renting it out when we moved to London for eight years.
Then, when our first son Sam was born, we returned to Leeds and lived there temporarily. However, a detached house with a large garden was the ultimate dream.
It had to be in the right location, near to good schools and within a certain radius of the hospital for Martin being on call as a doctor.
Looking ahead
This house ticked all our boxes but had been on the market for over a year and required some serious vision. It had been let out, felt really dark and the skirting boards had been chewed by dogs!
The property’s biggest flaw, though, was two ill-thought-out extensions that had
