The mortgage charge issue is sorted, we've got new title deeds that have the charge removed.

The request for a retention has been denied, but that's not really MUCH of an issue because the freeholders have given best estimate values for the previous two service charge years. Any shortfall is still the responsibility of the seller, it only becomes an issue if they leave the country and I can't track them down.

The wall could be an issue, but we're going ahead anyway. It's caused no problems in the two and a half years since the work was done and there's always the assumption that the builders wouldn't have done the work without being sure of the structural stability.

In other words, there are now two things which a simultaneous exchange and completion on Friday hinge on. The first is the seller not changing their time and the second is the bank releasing my mortgage by Thursday afternoon. I'm calling the bank tomorrow to explain the urgency and hopefully they'll get moving quickly.

So, hopefully I'll never blog on a Monday again without my own home to do it from.