Katie and Nick move in

Katie and Nick purchased a 50% share in a 2 bedroom apartment at The Hexagon in 2006. Katie worked at the Royal United Hospital as a Staff Nurse and was required to work varying shift patterns including nights and is on call once a month.

Katie and Nick were desperate to get onto the housing ladder; they originally started their search into home ownership about two years ago. Although Katie and Nick were both working full time and were on reasonable wages, they couldn’t find any properties in Bath that they could afford to buy. They were keen to buy a house in Bath, as they both worked in the city and had family and friends in the area too.

Katie first heard about New Build HomeBuy through a friend at work. After investigating, they realised that this was the solution they needed in order to own a home in Bath.

Katie and Nick registered their interest with Bath and North East Somerset Council and later with the HomeBuy Agent. In January 2006 they started planning their wedding and were understandably eager to start married life off in a home of their own.

As they hadn’t heard of any shared ownership developments in the area, they were starting to think that they were going to have to look at properties outside Bath. But in the summer of 2006 Katie and Nick were delighted to receive a letter from Somer Housing Group which told them about our shared ownership properties at The Hexagon.

Katie and Nick got married in November 2006 and in December they got their keys to their new apartment.

'We’re really, really happy here. It’s in Bath where we really wanted to purchase and it is a really big apartment; we couldn’t be happier!'