We've been talking of moving for ages, slightly limited by the fact that we are in a small village and not much comes up. Plus we're choosy! We lost out on a great house in our ideal street 4 months ago. Now another one has come up. We already knew the layout, value, mortgage repayments etc etc, it is absolutely the most perfect location imaginable (under 5 mins walk from school, 3 minutes walk to station for commute) and the house can be moved straight into, but with plenty potential for a bit of tinkering around in the future. Viewed it yesterday, offered today (asking price, which was same as valuation). It was accepted.
We'll be bridging (I know, I KNOW!) but the good thing is we only have 20k outstanding on our current place and even the two totalled together is just the upper limit of what the bank would lend us. Once we sell this place we should be fine and in fact we have a potential buyer lined up (family member), plus our income will rise this year and next. I shouldn't and wouldn't tell you any of this if I hadn't name-changed, but am in slight shock and need to splurge.
We are losing our stunning view
but will still have a nice outlook over hills etc. It's a lovely 3 bed house, nothing luxurious or grand but a really fab family home with a lot of flexibility, a decent amount of living space, great garden and I know we will be utterly, utterly happy there.
Phew. Tell me all will be OK?