Try

@{
    var homepage = Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot().FirstOrDefault();
}

This will get the first root node in your content tree.

In my base project I'm also using

CurrentPage.Site()

But note sure where that came from to be honest as a quick google doesn't find much and its not a custom extension I have wrote.

Hi Carl,

One of the new features in Umbraco 7.2 back when it was released was the query builder. The purpose with the query builder was to make eaier for new people to Umbraco to get data our of the system.

http://umbraco.com/follow-us/blog-archive/2014/12/4/umbraco-72-released

So instead of this:

@CurrentPage.AncestorOrSelf(1);

Then you can do:

CurrentPage.Site()

You can hear more about the query builder in the keynote from the last year CodeGarden in Copenhagen. http://stream.umbraco.org/video/9918428/umbraco-codegarden-14-keynote

If you don´t want to see the whole keynote then the part about the query builder starts in the 26 minute.

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

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