What I Own: We saved £26,000 to escape a nightmare landlord and buy our Greenwich flat

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What I Own: We saved £26,000 to escape a nightmare landlord and buy our Greenwich flat
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This week, we're visiting Hazel and Simon who, after navigating renting in London, bought a £460,000 home of their own in Greenwich in 2021.

This week, we’re back in the Big Smoke Welcome back to What I Own – Metro’s property series where we speak to homeowners about getting on the ladder. This week, we’re back in the Big Smoke visiting Hazel Waite and Simon McNair. Since moving into their one-bedroom Kidbrooke flat in 2021, they’ve made it their own with leafy plants, colourful wall prints and eclectic trinkets.

The kitchen is bright, airy and modern How did you find this property? What made you choose it? Like most people, we decided to ask Google first. Our requirement of being close and easily commutable to wider London provided a number of options, so we picked our top three and decided to visit them all in a single day. One of the biggest factors for us was that the train station is so close by. Other properties we saw felt like they were in the middle of nowhere.

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