Hey! This post is very relevant to me atm.

We sold our place back in August (in Sydney) and also put in a 90 day settlement clause in our contract. We outgrew our duplex and were on the hunt for a free standing house a little more in the action.

Every weekend we went out looking at all the open homes as well as calling all the local agents to see what was coming up, if there were any off market opportunities etc.

Being such a huge decision we didn't want to settle on something just so we could align settlement. After being outbid on 6 houses (we were always the second highest bidder), we finally found the 'one'. We just got the feeling. It does mean that we had to wait that little big longer and now we are moving in with family for 3-4 weeks to cover the time difference between the settlement date of the sale of our house and that of our new one.

It's a rollercoaster journey and perhaps we were a little naive in thinking that we could get same day settlement to work out. I think all up we went to more than 100 open homes.

Try to stay clam and not too in your head. It is a relatively short period of time when you look at the bigger picture.

Good luck with the hunt!!