Thanks for replies
Bye there is no onward chain. It's a probate puchase and I sense the vendor is having trouble letting go. Probate was granted before they put it on the market.
Re my flat - I barely have friends at the mo, certainly none who could help. I admit, being so down about everything could be colouring my perception of how bad the situation is.
Camo my solicitor is great. She is also very puzzled at how filling in a couple of forms can be holding things back. She had concerns about this from the start and has been careful about what work she does so I am not faced with the biggest possible bill in cae it falls through.
She does tell me that with the market as frantic as it is, she is seeing shocking standards of work so believes it could be solicitor incompetence.
I agree what's out there is shocking.
If I pull out, the main problem, apart from hating my current location, is that I spend so much time on the Tube going to mum's. That said, if mum needs more care, we'll have to get a carer.
I don't think I can face looking again. Mum has always said "it's sod's law that as soon as you move, I'll die". Don't worry, mum is generally more positive than me, lol. But she is 83 and we have to be realistic.
The market does have to cool off, I think. But I think there's too much stress in my life to keep looking. Some of you might have seen my post about mum spending 16 hours on a trolley in A&E.
The mum situation also means I could face the following - move into a place that's got something, as yet unknown, wrong with it, then be unable to sell mine, then mum passes on. 😱
mum is the most important thing in all this. I want to be nearby.