Well back from the seaside...another wonderful weekend of rain, sunshine, rain, sunshine etc, etc....We have noted some of the advice and feedback/comments and wanted ot respond.

Peter and Bomber, we’re in complete agreement with the ‘it’s only worth what people are prepared to pay for it’. I guess we’re just impatient and we figure that life is too short to just wait for the right price and in the mean time not move to the next stage in our lives. In dropping our price, we’re hoping for a quicker sale.

We are getting a lot of interest at this price now (three lots of second viewings), so hopefully we can talk more about buying in Brighton and not selling our place in the weeks to come! Incidentally, we haven’t deleted any comments from you Bomber, so sorry your comment seems to have disappeared, not quite sure what happened there.

Thanks JC for your kind comments. The photos of the property in Brighton reflect one of the properties we looked around recently. We are not planning on buying as there is just too much work needed. We hope to add more pictures of viewings as we go along. Hope your exchange comes sooner rather than later.

HPC – Thanks for the link. Always at the back of our minds is the worry this market cannot keep rising and that maybe there is a correction just around the corner. Ideally we sell, market crashes for about 3 months, we buy, market then shoots back up again. What do you think the chances are?(!)

Expat.- The house was a complete dump when we moved in. We treated it as a bit of a project really and stripped it back (although there were no features left at all). We put in oak flooring, a new kitchen, bathroom and some room changes that mean we now have a dining room and large living area. We also landscaped the garden and fixed leaks, damp and you name it really!  Incidentally, we found the ‘lurid pink furniture’ on www.treaclefurniture.co.uk they are actually original antiques, just reinvented for more modern tastes.

Paul Turbull – we just did lots of work in the house, and yes – actually house prices in this neck of the woods are pretty crazy. A two bed down the road went for £379,000 last weekend and that’s not unusual.

 Lady Bluebell- how kind of you to offer this advice. Yes – you are probably right about the expectations of buyers. The house is most definitely not in keeping with the period (inside).

The problem is that the damage was done before us. The house is two cottages knocked into one, all features were removed and there was lots of work to do on the layout, making fairly unusable spaces into usable ones. It is a modern take on a Victorian cottage and you are probably right about the furniture being a little ‘avant garde’ for many, definitely something to think about. (Although I think we might wait a little longer as we have had loads of interest this weekend.)

Let's see what this week brings!