Family renovators: upgrading to forever home with upside potential

With two young kids, big jobs, no time and the desire for a simultaneous settlement, this search needed to be efficient. The brief was a free-standing house on a 300sqm+ block, space for a pool, liveable now but with renovation potential, as far north as Bondi, west to Randwick and south to Maroubra (but not Maroubra!).