Hunting the elusive house

House-hunting turns out to be more tricky than I had remembered. (It’s almost 20 years since we’ve done any serious house-hunting.) We’ve had an offer for our Abingdon house that we’ve indicated we’re prepared to accept, provided we can tie down the house we want in Hertfordshire. But - and it’s a big but - the house we’ve set our hopes on in Herts is owned by a couple who are splitting up. She wants to sell the house; he’s hoping he can raise the money to buy her out.

So, is that house on the market or not? We can no longer rely on it and we’ve withdrawn our offer, pending a resolution of the ‘will he? won’t he?’ question.

In the meantime, Erica’s trawled property websites and identified various houses that would be OK. None of them would suit us as well as the house we want, but we’ll have to start hunting again.