House Valuation

Degsy

I'm in the final throes of getting my ex girlfriend's name off my house deeds,my solicitor now wants a valuation of the property so he can register it with the land registry.I asked my local estate agents to do the valaution and they wanted 190 euro!!This seems utterly excessive especially as i bought the gaff from them in the first place,i simply cant afford it.Is there another way of obtaining a valuation without being fleeced?

tirl

It's normally around €150 ish, another example of rip-off Ireland, don't think there is any way round it

MorningStar

I didn't realise you needed a valuation to register the property? If you had to get the ex-girlfriend off the deeds you must already bought her out right? Why not just put in that value? It sounds a bit strange what you have described
If you got a surveyors report originally they might give you another valuation based on a general price increase for nothing. The bank may do this too, remember a valuation is just opinion so Land register will accept your opinion

Lex Luthor

I got one recently for a house I bought from the estate agent who was selling the house for the bank...€60

gregos

You don't need a valuation to register it with the land registry. Your solicitor is just being a prat.

rooferPete

Hi gregos,

There may the issue of purchasing 50% of the house and as Degsy is no longer a first time buyer there could be some technical stuff about stamp duty.

In fairness we can't have the lad bearing his heart, soul and mind for us can we ?

Of course if you want to Degsy that's fine by me, please try and keep it under ten pages long, I lose concentration very easy these days .

Best of luck for the future

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Degsy

my solicitor is a prat allright.This nonsense has been dragging on for seven months,once i paid him his fee i had to start chasing him for everything.

rooferPete

Hi Degsy,

I think we all find the legal experience daunting to say the least, there seems to be a system that takes on a life of it's own.

You are not the only one to have found yourself in a process that you are told will be wrapped up in six weeks and find the process still dragging six months later.

I had one that went on for two years, a simple site purchase, So you are not alone

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Neil_Sedaka

Just last week I had Youngs, Sherry Fitz and Kelly Gunning around to value mine for a big fat nothing, I said I was thinking of putting it on the market.
Lots of places do free valuations.

lomb

Neil_Sedaka wrote:

Just last week I had Youngs, Sherry Fitz and Kelly Gunning around to value mine for a big fat nothing, I said I was thinking of putting it on the market.
Lots of places do free valuations.

where the valuations written and in the same ball park?

tirl

I know in Cork that they will give you a verble valuation free, but if they put it in writinf you have to pay.......also once you pay your solicitor then they lose interest

Degsy

Well they are members of the second oldest profession in the world!Before i paid my solicitor,he wrote me letters every couple of days asking for some of his fee,when i actually paid him he didnt even acknowledge the money for abou t a month.
The valuation he was looking for is a written valuation of the property as and when i bought the other half out,in my case december 2003.I got a local estate agent to do tis for me based on simple percentages and the charge was only 25 quid.As the indian bloke in only fools and horses said "Really?Its amazing what you can save if you shop around"!

FX Meister

You had to pay him up front? I've dealt with a number of solicitors down through the years and none of them asked for payment up front. In fact the last guy I used in Feb I also used when buying a house last year. He said if I was a bit tight on money having just bought the second house he could wait a while for his payment.

Degsy

I arranged to pay him three intsallments but decided to pay him in one go and have done with it.I saw him today and he told me he'd get round to doing the job i've paid him to do in a few weeks.I'm not particularly happy with this but what can you do,i'm fairly far down his list of priorities..

Neil_Sedaka

lomb wrote:

where the valuations written and in the same ball park?

Yeah, all written, two were about the same and the third was about 50,000 higher :eek: