We definitely made the right decision in terms of keeping on the lease. Our mortgage broker called us and said that they had fifteen people who were meant to complete sales on Monday, but only five of them (Matthias and me included) actually managed to make that happen. And ours only completed at 4.45pm, and we only got the keys at 6pm.

Every step of the process has been so fraught, and so stressful, and required so much chasing up of things by us that I just couldn’t face trying to arrange a house move at the same time. I know a couple of people who bought houses during the first lockdown, and they said that moving house was no problem, but buying the houses was an utter nightmare.