LSE Health away day 2007~Joan's work colleagues

Not married, no kids yet, but a shared mortgage

After roughly two years of living in Kentish Town we have finally decided that we want to live in the neighbourhood. We have both long term work contracts in London so we've gone ahead. Now we have started the process of buying a flat by putting an offer. The process is quite tuff, in fact we werew told it can take something like 6-8 months to buy. Transaction costs are quite sizeable, 2000£ solicitors plys 10,000 stamp duty. Besides this, there are thousands of little thing we need to have compleated, and each one of these things implies wasted time in inerviews and bureaucracy.

We seem to have the impression that all has gone a little quicker in out case, solicitor Jane L. and a mortgage advisor are prettu efficient. See how it ends, if its ends well we will have a two bedroom flat in Prince of Wales Road, nice top flat with wooden floors and high ceilings. Clearly ourideal place to start seting up a family.