We signed!!!

Yes! We went to the centre of Barcelona, to the central branch of our bank and after a longish checking of all the paperwork, signatures, certificates, IDs and so forth... we all (us and the vendors) signed the papers for the house and (most important) the mortgage and the flat is officially ours from the 5th of December.
I take the date as to be in the most auspicious month because we bought our previous house on a cold December too.

Wow!
To buy a flat is the most grown-up thing that we've ever done and the responsibility is scary. The bank actually valued the flat at 350.000€, that's almost 55.000€ more that what we've payed for it!!! So we're making money as I'm writing this. Real estate seems to be the best investment ever, I wish I could buy a flat by the sea next...

So, as the old song goes; "it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...!!"