Finding Home
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley June 6, 2026
Author Lucinda Hartley
Distributor: Amazon
ISBN: 978-1923186392
Publisher: Major Street Publishing
Release Date: 29 April 2026
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A guide to choosing a property that fits the life you want to live
Finding a place to call home has been a dream for many Australians over the years. The house, the yard, the kids and lifestyle has been the ‘Great Australian Dream’ since the 1950’s. The sad reality of buying your own home in Australia today is the dream is becoming more of a hope, wishful thinking, or a possibility, for the majority of people trying to establish a place they can call home.
Lucinda Hartley wrote Finding Home to help people reconsider what it is they really want when they do eventually decide to buy property or land to build or create their dream; their place called home.
As an Urban Designer who has worked on large and small housing projects on a global scale, also having grown up in Melbourne, but having lived in many different countries as a child and latterly as an Adult, she does understand what it means to call a somewhere home.
Having moved from home owner to renter of a home in 2002, she faced the reality of trying to purchase her own home as a single mother who worked predominantly on Contract. This change of lifestyle proved to be somewhat ironic, as she found that she was being rejected time and time again by lending institutes, as she did not fit their lending criteria.
She also realised she had no idea about where she really wanted to live, what she needed in her new lifestyle and what compromises she would need to make to own her own home. This made her start asking questions, doing the research and reviewing what it was that she really did need, as well as how much she was prepared to compromise.
With todays housing market grossly over inflated, coupled with the cost of getting a mortgage and servicing that debt, Finding Home presents a different perspective about what is home, that helps you make some hard decisions about what and where this place called home should or could be.
Hartley presents the many various options that are now becoming available within the framework of finding your home, as well as sound information on the financial marketplace, all of which has been well researched, and offers a fresh, modern, balanced and very logical way of eventually owning your own home, no matter what it looks like; a small studio apartment, a doer-upper, a rural retreat or a slice of suburbia.
As you read through Finding Home, the information that has been gathered and presented is absolute GOLD for anyone who is seriously trying to own their own home somewhere in Australia. It is a must read.