To buy or to sell? - well lets do both!

Our renters have left our property back in Beaconsfield so the inevitable question arose "Should we sell?". After a small amount of deliberation the property went on the market and so came the next question "Should we buy?". We had already considered this and had booked flights to Phuket for this weekend (3-4 June)to have a look around. However, before we got there we had put in an offer on an apartment in Wooburn Green (near Beaconsfield) after the girls had been to see it. We thnk this will be a place for the girls to live temporarily while Katie does her training and Natalie finds herself a job after finishing Unversity today! We know the apartments as they are on the site of Glory Mill and both Ann and I watched them being built as they are next to the gym we used to go to. And so to Phuket, where we spent the weekend looking at apartments and the odd villa. We both were enamoured by a rather nice villa not far from the Laguna area so at the moment we are in the process of selling one property and buying two. We returned on Sunday to receive an offer on our house which we accepted. Now as most people know buying and selling property can go disastrously wrong so we are not counting our chickens yet but we have hopes that very soon we will have exchanged our rather large 5 bedroom house for a 2 bedroon apartment in Wooburn Green and a 3 bedrooned villa in Phuket. Watch this space. For me personally this is the first step on the road to retirement!