Francesca Amber

I would either have to sell my beautiful home in the countryside near to my family where the girls go to school and we've set up our friends and, you know, I've got our whole lives there to be able to buy the kind of house in London that I would want to buy.

Somewhere with a garden, like just fucking outdoor space.

Like that's just like a basic requirement, but it's something that is like a luxury here.

Something that is really close to a tube station in the area that I want enough bedrooms for everybody.

So either I would have to sell my house and just go all in, all in, like fucking 100% in.

This is what we're doing.

We're just moving here full time.

And that wasn't really what I wanted to do.

Or...

It was going to be a second home that was going to be in an area that I didn't really massively want to be.

So like I was looking at having to go out.

I was going to have to go out to like East Finchley.

We're talking like zone fucking four vibes.

And I was like, that's not really what I want either.

I also started to look at having to compromise my goal in some way.

So one of my things, because I'd been so burnt by my neighbours, was it had to be a freehold house.

I was not fucking around with share of freehold or leasehold anymore.

Because if you have share of freehold or leasehold, your neighbors at any point can just decide, oh, actually, you can't Airbnb anymore.

Oh, actually, you can't do this.

You can't do that.