Time for an update!

So this is how things stand at the moment:
We put in an offer at €126,000, but lo and behold, the very next day another potential buyer put in a bid...after much toing and froing, we've put in the highest offer at €156,000...we really like this house!!! We're still waiting for confirmation from the solicitor that the other people have pulled out, and also for the results of a parasite survey that's being carried out tomorrow, which we should get on Friday. If all's well we should be signing the first stage of the sale Friday or Saturday morning!

We also put in an offer for another house in the same town - just opposite in fact. It's VERY nice inside, although a little too renovated in a way; belongs to a pharmacist, and it's a bit clinical. It's on the market at 215,000, and we offered 180,000, but the owner wasn't having any of it!

Tomorrow afternoon we're going to see another house, again in Bréal, similar style but smaller, cheaper and not in a good condition at all; it's a house with earth walls that've been totally covered in concrete, of all things...it's been turned into a bunker, basically...seems that they've taken out the old staircase and fireplaces as well. Idea of this one would be to buy it cheap and try to give it back some of its former dignity.

We'll see what happens next...