Property expert, businesswoman, TV presenter and writer Sarah Beeny, 52, bought her first home – a dated flat in Battersea, southwest London – for £52,000 when she was just 19. She and her future husband, Graham, renovated it themselves before selling it for a £20,000 profit – and this marked the launch of their property development business. Since then, they have bought and sold several properties for their own use, including an old gardener’s cottage in Balham, south London, which they turned into a family home, and Rise Hall, a 97-room mansion in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Beeny, her husband and their four sons now live in a manor house in Somerset they built themselves which features on the Channel 4 series, Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country. We moved to Somerset in 2018 because I ran out of reasons not to move. I had embedded myself well and truly in London, but Graham couldn’t imagine growing old in the city and wanted to build the perfect house in the country. It seemed churlish to stand in the way of his dream. Home is an eight-acre farm near Bruton. We’d looked at loads of farms over the years, but...