The people whose house we want to buy have just decided they're not selling after all. We have a cash buyer for ours and lawyers were about to start doing searches.
@christianp House-buying is just such a miserable business in every way.
First there's all the searching. Everything is too expensive. Nothing is quite what you need. And the process of house-searching corrupts your soul, so that for the next six months every time you go into someone else's house part of your brain will be thinking "hmm, it's probably worth this much, and we'd need to put some more bookshelves there", etc.
If you're buying with a mortgage, which almost everyone is, then you have to arrange one, and they're designed to be confusing and make it hard to know just what you will actually end up paying, and the mortgage providers will want to dig into your finances to verify that you're rich enough to be fit to do business with, and it's tedious and demeaning.
Then you have to actually buy the damn thing, which involves endless lawyering and the constant feeling that if someone makes a trivial slip then it could have life-ruining consequences. And it takes sooo long, and an annoying amount of getting multiple sets of ducks all in a row.
Then you move all your stuff, and possibly have to buy a load of new stuff, and you just know that some of those boxes are going to take a year before you get around to unpacking them.
And at the end of the process, yes, you have a hopefully-nice new house. But you also have much less money, or a mountain of debt, or both.
(But at least you aren't just pouring rent money into an everlasting black hole. However miserable house-buying is, house-renting is even worse.)
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