Big thing is the market where your house is, I have been looking for 4 weeks now every time we get to view a house due to being at work its difficult and we found the houses have sold.
Its very frustrating, currently have an offer on a house which is amazing for the money we have, the area is a bit crap as its 2 streets away from an industrial estate and has the back garden next to a main railway line (which is something I don’t mind) but we got the feeling it would be a nice house in a not nice area, or a complete disaster of a house in a nice area, we don’t have the money to put into repairs etc..so went for the nice house. Fingers crossed it all goes through now!