I got it!

To my great surprise and much greater joy, I got the flat! It was quite nervewrecking in the end, when I understood that I had a chance to get it. I waited four hours for one of the OBOS-members to figure whether he would snap it right in front of me or not, with a membership he got in February. I was away with work at at a conference center outside Oslo, and I was in a ski track in the forest when the broker told me it was mine, and, to quote Mishu: "my mind suddenly became colourful like a Hindi film"!