Inside our new house

Tim and I bought our first house today! We’ve been looking for a while now and recently found a newly-built house available for auction. Not really having any idea whether it would go for a price we could afford, we turned up at the house today hoping not to leave disappointed and we didn’t. We were lucky to have only one other couple bidding against us and we got it for a price slightly higher than we’d been planning to pay but still at a great price for the size of house in this area.

The house was built three years ago but never occupied, as the investor defaulted on their mortgage and it’s been in the hands of the bank ever since.

It’s a great looking house and quite central to everything we need. Being on the Central Coast, we’re not far from Tim’s parents but also not too far for trips into Sydney and still close to a train station with fast trains into the city. Its a short drive to the beaches in the east or to national parks and mountains in the west.

We hoping to move in at the start of November, if not before.

My other news is that I’ll be an aunt again in April as Helen is expecting her and Richard’s second baby.

Helen's scan. Either my first niece or my second nephew.