Exchanging

In the intro to my blog I say that I am "in the process of buying my first house". I have now nearly bought my first house. We exchanged contracts yesterday and I am very excited about it. However I am absolutely in awe of anyone who manages to buy and sell a house at the same time. Just buying has been bad enough. We started looking in March 2009 so it has nearly taken a year to get to this stage. 5 months of that time was spent waiting for a different property which was in a chain and which eventually fell through. Now we've exchanged on another (lovelier) place and I can't quite believe we're going to own a house in a week's time! There is loads more I could say but I'll save that for completion.