This is a post that should have been posted back In November, so its out of date, but the content is still valid.

It’s almost 12 months since we decided to move from our present house , an Edwardian semi. Although we love the house, and had in recent years explored creating a ground floor toilet, we had concluded that this was impossible, without changing the characteristics and beauty of the house. Some incidents over parking brought things to a head and we concluded we needed a home, not only with a ground floor bathroom, but with off street parking and greater access to shops and other amenities. A new tram line extension helped us to focus our thinking towards the west of our city and a suburb which we both knew well and liked.
We identified, jointly and together, what we desired by moving. Armed with this list we visited 4 Estate Agents on the high street; only at the final one were we offered a house, close by to look at. Amazingly we loved the house and after a survey quickly negotiated the purchase.