Back in the home land

Home and dry for 2013, Ronan O’Callaghan can put 2012 behind him. Here, he tells his story of selling a house, and buying another, in the dark years of the property market collapse.

‘Unfortunately, you bought a house at a time when engineers and solicitors were dealing with hundreds of house sales every month, and things weren’t just slipping through the cracks, they were being piled through them as quickly as possible — and the cracks were fairly big’.

If you Google ‘most stressful things in life?’, one of the top results will be ‘buying or selling a house’. I can attest to that — I have sold and bought houses in the past year .