#clog

We’re in the home stretch now – the mortgage is arranged, the searches are nearly finished, everything else is in place.

Househunting has been transformed by the internet, gone are the days of pounding the pavement in order to jump through the right hoops in order to buy your home. Our mortgage broker, solicitor and estate agent are all people we haven’t met, but whose services we have engaged over the net. We won’t even have to trudge to the solicitor’s office to sign the contract, it’s being posted to us. Even the searches undertaken by the solicitor seem to have been undertaken through another online agency.

That doesn’t mean to say it has not been exhausting for the two of us. A large part of the house hunt was finding the right area, sites like upmystreet are great for this, and you can even get a copy of the land registry data (for a small fee) courtesy of ourproperty.co.uk. If you don’t know where you want to live there’s not much point in househunting at all.