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The Survey

Before you buy an old house, someone surveys it, and the report always reads like a list of confessions. Damp in the cellar. A back window that only opens if you’re firm with it. A boiler described, politely, as “of its era”. You don’t tear it up and walk away. It tells you how to live with the house. Every quirk has a reason in its past.

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