can you purchase a property without disclosing your name

Danny healy ray

hello lads, is it possible to purchase a property with a solicitor or trusted friend acting on your behalf and not disclosing your name ??

geographica

Title needs to go into your name, unless you want to put it in your friends name and they run off with it 🤣

Danny healy ray

does the title come last as in the deal is completed?

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123271265#Comment_123271265

Your name will be on the contracts long before you get to the title.

Mickeroo

If you mean without disclosing your name to the person you're buying off, then yes you can. I know someone who did this when buying land off a member of their family they were not friendly with.

Danny healy ray

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123271322#Comment_123271322

yes without disclosing a name,was it straight forward ?

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123271361#Comment_123271361

Completely straightforward.

Just instruct a solicitor to act on your behalf.

Lenar3556

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058402919/can-you-purchase-a-property-without-disclosing-your-name

It depends on what you are trying to achieve.

Sometimes a solicitor or buyers agent will act on behalf of a client during the negotiation process, and during this time the identity of the actual purchaser may be kept discreet. However in order to agree a sale most vendors will want to have a clear understanding of who they are dealing with before they take it off the market.

Thereafter contracts will need to be drawn up in the name of the purchaser. The purchaser listed on the contracts and registered with land registry will be the legal title holder. If it’s not in your name, then it could potentially be purchased by a limited company which you control, or by another party or entity who you will contract to hold the property in some form of trust on your behalf - but it’s not simple and a transaction like this will bring about increase risks, raise anti money laundering flags, and potential future tax liabilities on sale.

Mickeroo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123271361#Comment_123271361

Yeah seemed to be, as elparello said, just ask the solicitor to act in your behalf.

Bass Reeves

You can also get someone to sign the contract in trust. Your solicitor then puts your name on the transfer.

3DataModem

Yes.

You give a solicitor power of attorney, and they can sign the contracts on your behalf.

Your conveyance solicitor might recommend that you get another solicitor to act as your POA, to avoid a conflict of interest, or at least get another solicitor to execute the POA, to avoid a conflict of interest (this is how Irish people buy Spanish properties, all the time).

Theoretically they'll only find out when the land registry is updated.

Claw Hammer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058402919/can-you-purchase-a-property-without-disclosing-your-name

At what stage do you want to avid disclosing your name. You can easily bid and have contracts issued without disclosing your name. After that, it gets more complicated. Do you want to complete the sale and have your identity concealed afterwards?

Danny healy ray

once the sale was completed a lad would be happy to be seen going in the door like comments on here it's to end years of fighting over a right of way

Claw Hammer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123275343#Comment_123275343

Just get someone else to bid and get the contract out. They then sell their interest in the contract to you and you take the closing. Make sure your solicitor is well known to the vendor's solicitor. The owner needn't be told that there has been a change of purchaser prior to the closing.
If that won't work, get your solicitor to buy in trust for you. After the closing dissolve the trust.

Danny healy ray

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123275953#Comment_123275953

thank you