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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Duncan Craig

The couple who bought a crumbling Scottish villa – by accident – and turned it into a holiday let

Duncan Craig paddles in a loch with one of his daughters near Dunoon.
Duncan Craig paddles in a loch with one of his daughters near Dunoon. Photograph: Duncan Craig


You know that feeling when you accidentally buy the wrong house? No, me neither. Cal Hunter does, though, and it was to prove quite the most fortuitous error of the 31-year-old carpenter’s life.

The blunder, in 2018 – attributed to a fast-talking auctioneer and a mix-up with lot numbers – left him and his partner Claire Segeren, 29, with a derelict Victorian villa 35 miles from the apartment in Glasgow that they had been targeting.

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