Unconditional

The day we've been waiting for has finally arrived. Alison got a call late in the day to inform us that the contract of sale on our unit has just gone unconditional. For people outside Australia this basically means that the buyers have no option to back out now, and come settlement date on the 13th of October will be legally bound to fork over the cash to us... I mean the bank.

We'd been hearing pretty positive noises from all parties involved through the two week period post contract, but you just never know in this market. There have been far too many stories floating around of contracts falling through on the last minute due to dodgy finance or a change of heart. Thankfully the news has been saturated with predictions of upcoming interest rate drops so the property market has been rather upbeat as a result.

To celebrate Alison and I had wanted to check out Blue Smoke, a saliva inducing restaurant in New Farm that Dan had told us about. Much to our dismay we discovered that the place was not open on Monday, so we settled for a night of Turkish cuisine at Ahmets instead.



We'll probably leave Blue Smoke for another dinner this week. Satiated by an overflowing meat platter and the smokey aftertaste of baba ganoush, I think it's time to enjoy a night of sleep free of property related stress. At least until we have to start thinking about moving...