We have just bought a small house/cottage on the side of a hill in Adony and this is our blog about the renovation, from purchase to completion. Its basically going to be our record of what work we have done, how we did it and how much it has cost over the coming months. Until, hopefully, we can move in and to invite everybody to the housewarming party! :)

We have already paid for the house, the cost of which was 1,900,000 forints which at the time of this post is about 5,205pounds (365 forints to the pound). The lawyers costs were 30,000 forints (approx 82pounds) and tax was 6,000 forints (about 16.50 pounds) and thats it!

The actual purchase of the house consited of us, the seller and the lawyer sitting down in a room in the town hall in Adony signing a few pieces of paper, and handing the money over, as simple as that. The whole purchasing process taking approximately 45mins, as appose to 4 or 5 months in England. Having said this we dont yet have the keys to the house but will be picking them up this coming Tuesday afterwhich I will post some 'Before' photos.

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