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N_LaRUE Congrats! Welcome to the club!
Yeah, lots of paperwork.
I'm assuming you're getting a mortgage? We went with Halifax, well we had little choice, had to watch a couple of videos so she didn't have to explain everything, seemed to take forever... Thankfully the person handling our mortgage had a sense of humour about the whole thing.
The lawyer bit was just signing papers. Rather quick overall. Anticlimax actually.
Then there's getting the insurances... Sigh...
Make sure you check around for quotes on insurances. Our bank offered them and they proved to be more expensive.
We've gone through a local independent mortgage advisor, we've got a solicitor so now we're waiting for the estate agent and solicitor and the bank to get paperwork over to us, which is a bit frustrating. I've been told by people at work that anything that involves a solicitor involves frustration and pain so... woo!