Finding Home

Keeping your dream of home ownership alive!

Most conventional home-buying advice is outdated. The idea that if you work hard and save, you can buy a home and be financially secure no longer applies. With skyrocketing house prices and cost-of-living pressures, buying your first home can feel overwhelming, even impossible. But there is another way. Finding Home offers a fresh, empowering approach to choosing where to live and how to buy on your terms. This isn’t a book for property investors. It’s for you: a first-home buyer, a renter, a side-hustler with a modern career who wants a home that fits their life.

Written by urban designer and tech entrepreneur Lucinda Hartley—who has spent two decades shaping cities and neighbourhoods around the world—this book blends practical tools, evidence-based insights and real-life stories to help you make confident housing choices. You’ll learn how to align your home with your values, lifestyle, and neighbourhood, while navigating trade-offs, finance options and the buying process.

Having lived in more than ten countries—and twice as many homes—Lucinda also brings a personal lens to the complexities and trade-offs of finding a home. Her work and writing explore how choosing where to live is about more than property—it’s about lifestyle, wellbeing and creating a life on your own terms.

Whether you’re ready to buy or just exploring your options, this book will help you cut through the chaos and make decisions that support your lifestyle, well-being and what truly makes a house a home.