Stunned
My wife and I have been rabbiting on about "down-sizing" and buying our "final" home for some time now as I am approaching 64 years old and looking forward to retiring next year.
The timing of this with our holiday in 5 weeks wasn't the best but, suddenly, we found ourselves at an estate agents agreeing to our house going on the market.
It went on the website and in the local paper on Wednesday-last and it was sold, subject to contract yesterday - two days and it was snapped up.
We were really not expecting this being typical novices in this fast-moving world but it seems that our house was classed as highly desirable, hence the free-for-all to buy it.
Whilst there is a strong sense of satisfaction that what we thought would struggle to sell turned out to be the exact opposite, we are now facing a bit of pressure to get ourselves a new home.
What we want and what's available at present is a bit demoralising but we feel extremely fortunate but stunned that we are in this position now!
So far we have had one viewing - today - and the house we saw was an absolute tip!
How these people have the gall to ask virtually what we are selling our "highly desirable" 3-bedroomed house for beggars belief. stevmk2