It's incredible how slow the sale of the flat is going. It's not that we were not warned in advance. Our (excellent) solicitor Rita Greaney told us that we would exchange in early November so we're on track but it seems that the lats 2 weeks have been lost in meaningless exchanges between the 2 solicitors.
From our point of view, we prepared the seller's pack as soon as we instructed our solicitor and we thought it would be sent straight away. That was without understanding that solicitors don't work fast. Our solicitor was waiting for the seller's solicitor to send her a notification of instruction, which she never reveived. Luckily, we are getting on well with the buyer so we got the solicitor to communicate yesterday and things are going to move again!
Anyway, I don't want to sound downcast, since it's all going according to plan so far. The buyer's survey is taking place on Tuesday and we'll be expecting some questions regarding the property, which should be quite similar to the ones we asked when we bought the place...
More news next week... :-)
10 October 2007
01 October 2007
Visiting Bristol
Following last Monday's survey, it's been pretty quiet on the selling front (partly thanks to the buyers enjoying the autumn of Tenerife) so we got busy on the renting / buying front in Bristol.
What we realised is that we needed an address in Bristol quick, if we wanted to get Issy (our 3-year old princess / monkey - depending on moods) in a good school. So we went through 100's of Ofsted reports, studies the school result league and selected 5 or 6 areas to visit.
For those knowing Bristol, it will come as no surprise that Clifton, Redland & Cotham (CRC) were our No1 target. But (and there's always a but) £300,000 does not get you very much in posh Bristol and certainly not a house, which was the No1 reason we decided to move in the first place.
So we also looked at St. Andrews & Bishopston and Southville and in all these places, we could afford a 3-bed Victorian house so that's pretty cool, even if it doesn't have the charm of CRC...
We also went to Totterdown, where our friends (Andrew & Amy) from Stoke Newington bought a lovely 3-bed house last year and I really loved their house. It felt like so much space, after living for 4 years in a flat and I really can't wait to move now...
What we realised is that we needed an address in Bristol quick, if we wanted to get Issy (our 3-year old princess / monkey - depending on moods) in a good school. So we went through 100's of Ofsted reports, studies the school result league and selected 5 or 6 areas to visit.
For those knowing Bristol, it will come as no surprise that Clifton, Redland & Cotham (CRC) were our No1 target. But (and there's always a but) £300,000 does not get you very much in posh Bristol and certainly not a house, which was the No1 reason we decided to move in the first place.
So we also looked at St. Andrews & Bishopston and Southville and in all these places, we could afford a 3-bed Victorian house so that's pretty cool, even if it doesn't have the charm of CRC...
We also went to Totterdown, where our friends (Andrew & Amy) from Stoke Newington bought a lovely 3-bed house last year and I really loved their house. It felt like so much space, after living for 4 years in a flat and I really can't wait to move now...
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