Feel so sad and stuck

[Ewan83]

I know to many this may be a woe is me tale, as i know we're lucky to have been in position to buy a first home in the first place.

However i now feel so stuck. Today the perfect next home came on the market, which we have walked by in our village many times. Not many things at all come on the market here that we can even come close to affording, but this is within our price range and i know it will be snapped up quickly.

There will be plenty of people in a position to buy and move in, we don't even have ours on the market and if we did where would we go if it sold?

Has anyone any words of wisdom on how they managed to move from their home to their perfect home??

Do we need to sell to rent again, and wait until the next perfect home comes up??? Or is this why so many people are able to buy the so called dream home in retirement as they have paid off their blasted mortgage :-( Sorry just sad and frustrated.

Renting is so expensive and i don't even know how we go about this with our mortgage.

Yeah trying to make the stars align with a purchase and a sale when things are getting snapped up so quickly is a nightmare at the moment! Think your best bet is to get sold asap because many agents won’t even offer a viewing without you at least being on the market, and you’ll need to have sold to be able to make an offer that’s taken seriously (ie the house being taken off the market).

We rented in between when looking for a new home but that was mainly due to moving to a totally different area for work, so needing to get there asap and worry about housing later. I loved the flexibility it gave, and we were able to do some fairly major work on the new house without disruption. For the couple of months that overlapped it cost another couple of thousand in rent but it saved living in a building site for weeks on end with work happening around us, and meant we could get the kids rooms all decorated and organised before moving in.