Unfortunately the house move seems to have hit an obstacle. The property we are buying is part of a larger farm that is being split and we have found out that the owners have a mortgage on the whole property. So, this has to be split as well as the title at the Land Registry that we already knew about. Our solicitor says that this may take many months which understandably our buyers, or rather their buyer, are not willing to wait. Our buyers say they will go into rented but obviously there is the worry that they will then look at other properties and may find something better. It looks like we may have to go into rented while we wait for the split to be sorted. Of course we are then in a good position if we see anything better come on the market. It does mean we will have to move twice but hopefully we can do the second one ourselves at a slower pace. The difficulty with rented though is finding somewhere big enough to store all our stuff, with parking for three cars that will take a pet (our elderly cat). It would also be good to get somewhere near the house we are currently trying to buy.