Ghost Buildings / Half Finished

drunkmonkey

What's the situation with uncompleted property, there's a half finished building sitting across the road from me where the builder ran out of money about 4 years ago. It's an eye sore and blocking a lovely view of the mountains, it's hard to say who own's it, i'd assume Nama, the business will never be built.

What can be done with these property's, could I make a little camp there and claim squatters right, then bulldoze the eye sore when it's mine. What are the options open to people with eye sores outside there window, when there is no apparent owner and nothing happening on the property?

MagicSean

Did you contact your local planning office and ask them about it?

NoQuarter

You could claim squatters rights, you need to take over the property as your own, exclude everybody else, act adversly to the title owner(decorating for example) and have the property uninterrupted for 12 years (or 30 years if the state own it) and after that its yours!

On the other hand if you do claim it as yours, you could be charged for essentially breaking and entering for the next 12 years.

drunkmonkey

It doesn't have a roof, it's missing some walls and there's no windows. I was just thinking of pitching a tent.
If there any record of planners ordering something to be pulled down because it's not finished. Isn't there some law that allows you to take your time building as long as you lay a block in the first 5 years or something?

I wish they'd either bulldoze it and give back the view or finish it and create some jobs, these zombie property's need to be tackled.

NoQuarter

Pitching a tent is not enough, google "adverse possession". That is the law surrounding what you are asking.