Is going on holiday while trying to buy really that bad?
Myself and my partner have been trying to purchase our first property for over a year now. We have a max budget of about €400k and would like to be in Dublin, where we both grew up and have lived our whole lives. Neither of us have many connections to trades people, so we decided an apartment was better for us than a fixer upper house.
We first went sale agreed in August 2025. After 6 months of being sale agreed, the sale fell through due to concealment of information regarding fire safety issues.
January 2026 we went sale agreed again, even nicer than the first place so we were delighted. Now in May, it's starting to look like we may encounter the same issues. We are both exhausted from the ups and downs and from saving tightly and keeping our accounts in top shape for about a year. Should this current sale fall through and we need to go back to the market for the third time, we feel we really need even a week away, nothing extravagant, but some sun in Europe.
Obviously this would require dipping into the savings even a little bit or saving less that month.
Would this set us back and require us to restart 6 months of clean savings all over again?