Buying A House 2

After a slow start we have seen progress in the last few days, the mortgage has been approved and they are doing the survey to make sure that the house is not a tent out in a field but actually in Milton Keynes. This should be done on the 1st of September and then we are hopefully at the contract stage.

The first three weeks were form filling and copies of this and that to the bank, the lawyer and to the housing association that will own the other 50%. The lawyer has done the searches and so their website tells us, has a contract from Orbit; this was all on Friday.

Otherwise we have ordered a 2 & 3 seater lounge suite combo but it won't be with us for upto 9 weeks! We have looked at fridge, washing machine, bed etc too but will buy these abit closer to when we move. One thing is that we will have new furniture and not someone else's.

We are off to Spain at the end of the month so we may have everything happen at once. We wish!

Here's a photo - there are two buildings and 4 houses here! We will be the one on the righthand side of the left... this is called semi detached as there is a shared wall between the houses (No 3 and No 4), then a gap and then the other building on the right (No 2 and No 1). We are off to have another look and to measure - more photos to follow. Arrgh, buying a house in England!