‘My husband and I are going to chop the house in half for our kids’

• Twelve years ago, we bought a huge, slightly odd house in a charming, well serviced inner-city area.

Not long after, a real estate agent said this to me: “You know, your kids will never forgive you for this. You’ve raised them in an area they’ll never be able to afford.”

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‘My husband and I would keep the original two-bedroom front cottage and our children would take over the back half.’ Photo: Jason Edwards