When one close-knit, travel-loving family with tweens went looking for their dream home, they found it closer at hand than expected. They had already owned a house in Forest Hill for decades, renting it out while living in the Annex when their kids were small. But 15 years later, the site held new appeal. 

“They decided to move to Forest Hill to walk to school and to be closer to their friends,” says Rory Gozlan, adding that the house they owned there had been chopped up into apartments and was too tired to save. They decided to rebuild it.