We've exchanged contracts on a house

Well - that was stressful.

Last week (Monday 24th September) we put in an offer on a house in Pymble, and it was verbally accepted on Friday 28th.

All we had to do then is exchange contracts to ensure the property was ours - in the meantime, the agent would continue to progress putting the property on the market (we got to see it pre-marketing).

Then estate agent calls, and wants the contract sent staight away not overnight in the post, as a neighbour was about to put in an offer (apparently we later find out, they had put an offer in a few months ago, but this time went direct to the solicitor).

A bit later Louise gets a phone call from the agent. The neighbours offer exceeds ours. The amount was a figure we had previously discussed and we quickly made decision to match their offer. Now it was case of whom could exchange first.

We got the agent to collect our contract from solicitor, but find out that the other contract is there too, just after ours. The estate agent was waiting upon the vendors solicitor to tell him which contract to exchange with. But the solicitor was in a meeting and was keeping us all waiting

Eventually the agent rings back and...............................

it's ours.