They had beentogethernearly a decade, though for the lastfew yearstherelationship had a third member — ayoung manthey met in Halifax, NovaScotia, where they moved in2001afterleavingXY.
Deutsche Annington, like many of its rivals, is a relatively young company with old roots: It was formed in 2001 when Terra Nova bought a huge portfolio of decades-old workers' flats from German Federal Railways.