Sorry I'm a bit late in coming back with a big thank you to Chris and Felix for all your invaluable help. I thought we had a fairly healthy degree of cynicsm in dealing with anyone trying to sell us something, but I'm quite staggered at just how brazen that estate agent was. (Incidentally, we've seen the same plot with another agent at 11,000 euros less!) We've learned some very useful lessons here, and really can't thank you enough.

Chris, I hope the painkillers have worked on whatever it was.