The Morrey family’s Christmas looked pretty bleak when a leading national home builder gave them a deadline to complete the sale of their Skellow home and move forward with their purchase on a new development.

Just two days past the deadline, Chris and Joanne had the cash to move forward but were informed their reserved home had been sold to someone else.

Anxious to be in a new home for daughters Amelia (4) and Sophie (2) for Christmas, they returned to the Swan Homes’ development that had also caught their eye in Arksey. They reserved what was basically the shell of a four-bedroomed Gateford home at Arksey on the 17th of November and were astonished when they were called and told the could move in on the 9th December – which they promptly did.

Immediately the house was reserved Swan Homes sales manager Eileen Myles had cancelled her day off to get site manager Dave Jones and his team moving. Scunthorpe-based kitchen suppliers Contracts Now had the kitchen of choice fitted in days, while Dave and his team of craftsmen completed the finishing touches in and around the house.

Eileen commented: “It would normally take six weeks to move from the stage of build the home was in when Chris and Joanne reserved, but thanks to the kitchen suppliers co-operation and our painters working weekends, we were able to halve that time.”

Chris, who works as a relationship manager for the high net worth clients of an insurance brokerage is delighted with the move: “At the end of the day we’ve moved in plenty of time for Christmas and the quality of our new home is superior to the one we lost and any others we looked at.”

Joanne, who works for another insurance company added: “Arksey’s a delightful village and we’re pleased to have enrolled Amelia for the primary school that has a very good reputation.”