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Finding Home

A guide to choosing a property that fits the life you want to live

By: Lucinda Hartley

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Paperback | 28 April 2026 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

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21.0 x 13.5 x 2.4

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

Keeping the dream of home ownership alive for first-home buyers, renters, side-hustlers and anyone with a modern career who wants a home that fits their lifestyle.

Most conventional home-buying advice is outdated.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.

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.

About the Author

Lucinda Hartley is a multi-award-winning urban designer, technology entrepreneur and keynote speaker, named one of Australia’s Top 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review. She has spent the past two decades helping shape better places for people – from leading urban programs for the United Nations in Asia to delivering 100+ grassroots neighborhood projects across Australia.

A serial entrepreneur, Lucinda is currently tackling the housing affordability crisis as Co-Founder of Zeroo Home loans, a shared-equity home loan platform providing new financial pathways for first home buyers. She previously co-founded Neighbourlytics, a data analytics company used by city leaders in 10 countries to design more liveable neighbourhoods, and award-winning placemaking consultancy CoDesign Studio.

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