{"id":49,"date":"2020-07-05T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T10:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/?p=49"},"modified":"2020-07-06T07:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T07:10:17","slug":"pandemic-house-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/05\/pandemic-house-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic house buying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for a new house since spring 2018. I went through many visions of what that would be: new or old, flat or house, buy outright\/ or get a small mortgage? And where it would be: the kid goes to school in Crieff and I didn&#8217;t want to take her away from the friends and school she was happy with. This left me with a search radius of a few miles around Crieff including Comrie, Muthill, Auchterarder and Gilmerton. I eventually came across this 2 bed cottage in a small terrace in Crieff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/00038Pittenzie-scaled-e1593940102581-672x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior Pittenzie Place\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/00038Pittenzie-scaled-e1593940102581-672x1024.jpg 672w, http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/00038Pittenzie-scaled-e1593940102581-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/00038Pittenzie-scaled-e1593940102581-768x1170.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/00038Pittenzie-scaled-e1593940102581.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I made an offer in mid February 2020, just as the stories of a virus starting to spread in China started to become news. The offer was accepted and I was hopeful about getting the keys within a few weeks. Of course external events took over and a national lockdown was declared on March 23rd 2020, effectively halting all house purchases across the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I waited, not entirely sure if or when the purchase would complete. Finally, in mid June, things began moving again. The purchase was completed without further issues and I got the keys on 30th June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time for some pics. These are the original pics from the estate agent&#8217;s web site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7387-e1593942969104-1024x702.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"51\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7387-e1593942969104.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/?attachment_id=51\" class=\"wp-image-51\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7387-e1593942969104-1024x702.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7387-e1593942969104-300x206.png 300w, 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I went through many visions of what that would be: new or old, flat or house, buy outright\/ or get a small mortgage? And where it would be: the kid goes to school in Crieff and I didn&#8217;t want to take her away from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scottrussell.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}