I found a secret door in my £105,000 flat — what was inside left me speechless

After years of saving, Phoebe Irving was ‘chuffed’ to finally own her own place.
The 26-year-old photographer snapped up a four-bedroom flat in Liverpool for £105,000 – a price that’ll have most Londoners’ jaws dropping.

However, on the day she got the keys, she was left speechless after opening what she thought was a cupboard door, only to discover a ‘whole other flat’ inside her apartment.

‘When I went for my first viewing, there was a room that was locked,’ recalls the 26-year-old photographer.

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‘The estate agent said it was just for storage.

I asked if they could bring the keys for it to my next viewing, but they forgot.

‘I assumed due to the price of the flat, it wouldn’t be anything.’
But when she opened the door, she was greeted with a huge space, almost the size of three double bedrooms.

She continued: ‘I opened the door, and there was a huge room inside it.

I was so shocked, it was a lot bigger than a cupboard […] it’s basically a whole other flat.’
The secret room came as a huge surprise as it hadn’t been featured on the floor plan, and wasn’t found by surveyors either.

‘It’s been empty for a while, so it needs quite a lot doing to it,’ she adds.

‘I’m so overwhelmed, as now I have double the amount of space, and I don’t even have the budget to do up the rest of the flat, never mind this!’
Currently, she’s toying with the idea of turning it into a cinema room or dressing room someday.

She revealed they pay £884 a month for the property, in a suburb of the city called Woolton Village, but it originally cost £140,000 when it was purchased in 2015.

The place hasn’t been valued in a while, but she reckons it’s now worth between £385,000 and £400,000.

It’s a 1930s ex-council house, and its transformation has been incredible.

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