This whole real estate thing has been a roller coaster ride. I can't believe it but we seem to have sold our house. In fact we exchanged contracts on Wednesday (in between The Wiggles and Regina Spektor). There is a five day cooling off period for the purchaser so I'm aware things could still go wrong but I'm feeling really positive.

Is that like a record, selling your house in four days? We had our first open house last Saturday and on Monday I got a call from the agent saying that they'd had many calls about it that morning and had a bid of $610,000. Great we said. Happy with that.

Tuesday we got a call saying we had another bid of $620,000. Great we said. Even happier with that. So it all went through and we signed a contract on Wednesday. Not only is it sold but it's $1,000 more than the advertised price.

I'm a bit dazed and confused really. It's supposed to be a dead real estate market at the moment. I had a horrible feeling it would take us a few months to sell the house (our friends in a different area recently sold theirs after almost five months on the market). Buggered if I have a clue how it all works.

The main thing is, all going well, we'll be able to settle pretty much at the same time on both properties and move into our apartment without the much feared bridging finance. [Insert look of immense relief here!]