What price an Englishman’s castle? The flat we thought we’d agreed a sale on fell through just about a week ago. Angry doesn’t even come close to describe how I felt towards the vendor then and indeed today. Some way off in the near future sellers will be forced to use things called sellers packs that will make it compulsory for them to include a survey as to the true state of the property. This is instead of the ludicrous situation where you might have for arguments sake 5 surveys on the same property all getting the same result. This is lunacy, though I’m sure the surveyors would say otherwise as five fees are sure better than one. Anyway, this and the proposed reduced stamp duty are some way off and we need to move.

We’ve been looking in an area of upto a few miles from where we live. The northern slopes of Crystal Palace are truly lovely places to look back down on central London. The new flat we’ve seen and made an offer on sits just next to a nature reserve and from the kitchen window its possible to see BT Tower as well as the Barbican, the Gherkin etc….
We find out tomorrow if we’re lucky with our inital offer, however we’re prepared to up it a bit just in case. Well, that’s my weekly rant in the bag. I hope to get ny bike back this week. More on that next week.

Cheers peeps.

Sean