WHEN helping people declutter, home expert Marie Kondo recommends finding joy. And that’s exactly what a couple in their 70s have done.
Dermot and Sue Bradley wanted to downsize from the five-bedroom home they’d lived in 15 years, and turned to the new McCarthy Stone’s Twyford retirement living development, Loddon House.
“We had been living in our detached house for many years – it is a large house with a big garden,” Dermot, 76, says.
“As we are getting older, it was beginning to become difficult to maintain the upkeep ourselves, so we wanted to move into a more low-maintenance home.
“We had searched on and off for a new apartment for several years, but when we saw Loddon House, we thought it was perfect for us.”
And to help Dermot and Sue (75) move, they used McCarthy Stone’s part-exchange scheme, to take out some of the hassle of moving.
“It was a huge amount of help,” Dermot says. “The scheme made everything run so much smoother.
“We didn’t have the bother of Estate Agents and prospective buyers coming to view our house and didn’t need to worry about any chains collapsing either.
“We were able to complete the sale within three weeks and move in within five, which is testament to the sales team at McCarthy Stone. They truly put our minds at ease and made the whole process really seamless – I don’t know what we would have done without them.”
Now, they are firmly settled in, and certainly finding joy in Loddon House.
“We had to go back to our old house a couple of weeks after moving to pick up something we’d left behind, and we didn’t miss it at all,” Dermot says.
The apartments have been designed for over 60s, and is overseen by a house manager, with a 24-hour call system available.
For more details, log on to: www.mccarthystone.co.uk/loddon-house.
