The market is bonkers here, prices and time on market, with prices skyrocketing and time on market plummeting whixh makes it really difficult to secure something. A friend of mine just paid $920,000 for a new build that five years ago would have cost her $450,000. They had an asking price of $820,000 and it ended up $100,000 more...and that's for a first home buyer. Prices are mental.
Anyway, we're taking it slow, no hurry really, and w know we'll make the right decisions; we're pretty experienced in this sort of thing.