It feels incredible but we’ve done it. Friday 10th June, 10 days (including a weekend) after our offer is accepted and we’ve exchanged contracts.
We’re now flat out for school applications.
I’ve rather glossed over in these posts just how many emails and phone calls were involved and how many times we chose to do something even though there was a small risk it might have to be done again.
What is clear is that we’ve been lucky. Lucky to be able to buy before selling, lucky to find the right house within days, lucky to have missed the wrong house and lucky that the following players performed so admirably, professionally and quickly.
- The One Account (Virgin branded, owned by RBS) who continue to exceed expectations as they have done for the last 12 years. They make everything easy.
- Our solicitor, Leigh Young of Stroud. They are simply outstanding and not just in this most recent task. They never send a bit of paper that can be replaced with an email!
- Cotswold District Council who completed the local searches faster than anyone could reasonably hope.
- The Cirencester branch of Perry Bishop who, as the vendor’s agents were, as their tag line suggests informative at every stage and sympathetic to our urgency.
- The surveyors whom I can’t recall at the moment who did surveys on our current and new houses and had the results back to our lender in 1 working day.
Kudos to them all. Quite remarkable considering the scorn (often justified) poured on the wider population of all the above professions.