A teenager has purchased her first home while training to become a nurse and working weekends in a take-away. Just weeks after she turned 19, Isabella Hunter single-handedly bought her 107,000 pound (approx. US$146,300) two-bedroom, semi-detached home. The savvy youngster from Dearham, Cumbria, in England, stepped onto the property ladder in April and, unfazed by the renovation work needed, managed to do all the painting and decorating herself. The qualified health care assistant wasn’t afraid to get her hands dirty and once she had the keys, she was excited to make the house—complete with garage and driveway—into a perfect modern home. The first-time buyer opened a help-to-buy savings account when she turned 16 and saved for three years for her first place. “I started working when I was 15, and I opened the account with my £1,000 [approx. US$1,370] savings,” she said. “The maximum I could pay in was £200 [approx. …