Myself and my partner have bought a house and have put a booking deposit on the house. The contracts are with our solicitor for the last two weeks - we had a problem with mortgage in that my partner was waiting on his annullment agreement (separated from his wife 2 yrs ago) and this was holding things up. We have now been approved but one of the conditions of the new mortgage is that I have to sell my apartment first. My apartment is going on the market on Monday for 280k. Its in Oranmore in Galway. Do you think all of this might steer the vendor away from us? We are signing the contracts this week and paying 30k of a deposit which we have. Has anyone any expeirience of sellin apartments - is it a lenghty process? Will we not get our mortgage money from the bank until my apartment sells with exchange of money etc. Getting really worried that we are going to loose the house - it really is our dream house. Someone mentioned to me about getting equity on the apartment until it is sold - does anyone know anything about this. All advice greatly appreciated.