Relocating is a big deal, especially when it involves selling your existing home to buy another or reassessing whether your finances will allow the existing home to become a rental property.

If you are selling your current home to buy a new one, timing is of the essential. In a perfect world, settlement on the sale of your current home would coincide with the settlement on your new purchase. However this is, more often than not, an unrealistic goal. So what are the options?