Sql_newbie_t wrote: » We are sale agreed for approx 13 weeks. No contact from the seller. This week the seller reaches out to say that they are ready to proceed and asked are we still continuing with the purchase. Just wanted to ask how you would approach the renegotiation of the price.. alot has changed/happened since sale agreed. 6-10% off would be all that we are asking for, there examples of properties in the area back on the market 5% lower. My partner doesn't want to loose the property but I think we should hold off buying anything for a while.
Ozark707 wrote: » With exemptions gone which part of the market will be most affected? Lower/middle/upper? I know there is always a link anyway but in which bracket do most exemptions get targeted at?
rosmoke wrote: » There are always people happy to pay double on the same thing. Next year sellers might pay you to get rid of it, like crude oil.
Hubertj wrote: » Pretty sure everyone agrees prices will drop, debate is over the speed and extent of those drops
eagle eye wrote: » seven bathrooms,
cnocbui wrote: » Normally I wouldn't, but if you try the link you might realise why I did..
cnocbui wrote: » https://www.afr.com/wealth/personal-finance/house-prices-will-not-fall-sharply-20200423-p54mj9 Last edited by Graham; Today at 15:21. Reason: please don't re-post entire articles.
cnocbui wrote: » https://www.afr.com/wealth/personal-finance/house-prices-will-not-fall-sharply-20200423-p54mj9 I wish I owned property in Australia, rather than this... er.... location, to be diplomatic.
House values are unlikely to fall materially and will either move sideways or at most fall by up to 5 per cent over the next three to six months. Christopher Joye: Columnist Apr 24, 2020 – 11.06am Everyone loves a contrarian position, and I enjoy betting against conventional wisdom. <SNIP>
JimmyVik wrote: » I have places I put my money. Not in buy to let though.
combat14 wrote: » looks like serious problems coming in US housing market toohttps://www.ccn.com/the-housing-market-is-edging-dangerously-close-to-a-1-trillion-reckoning/
landofthetree wrote: » This was pointed out earlier in the thread(late March). Some people think it won't matter because of low supply. :rolleyes:
Zenify wrote: » https://www.revenue.ie/en/gains-gifts-and-inheritance/cat-exemptions/exemption-for-dwelling-house/index.aspx "You do not own, have an interest or a share in any other house, including one you acquired as part of the same inheritance." Anyone could say they lived in the family home while actually living in another property. It's a bit of anti avoidance legislation (I think). Also it says living in the family home for 6 years before they die. I thought it was 3. They must have extended it. That's to make sure you dont move back in with your parents when they get a cancer diagnosis so you are technically living in the property when they die.
combat14 wrote: » Bank stress tests Feb pre-covid predicted 13.5% house price drops in event of economic shockhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/irish-property-prices-forecast-to-fall-in-bank-stress-tests-1.4157946%3fmode=amp Predictions of 15-20% house price drops in March before full significance of 1,000,000 on social welfare and country potentially borrowing an extra €30 billion eurohttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/irish-property-prices-forecast-to-fall-in-bank-stress-tests-1.4157946%3fmode=amp If this goes on much longer- government will have to start reducing "taper" the covid payment and even consider reducing regular social welfare, cutting public service pay and raising all sorts of taxes ... I.e. all bets off on extent house price drops then....... but for now 15-20% house price drop sounds reasonable subject to further drops depending on the length and extent of this crisishttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/coronavirus-ireland-finance-minister-paschal-18133224.amp
dor843088 wrote: » That's it. The nail in the coffin for anyone saying prices will not fall. It will become a self fulfilling prophecy. The more they limit credit the more they fall , the more they fall the more they limit credit. We are off to the races now.
combat14 wrote: » and it starts .. Banks limit home loans amid house price fearshttps://m.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/property-mortgages/banks-limit-home-loans-amid-house-price-fears-39156374.html
Donald Trump wrote: » I'd have assumed that if you were officially living in the house for long enough you'd qualify regardless of whether you had another property
Zenify wrote: » You are looking at it the wrong way. Everyone has to pay tax on what they inherit above the threshold. There is an exemption for people who are living in the house they are inheriting from their parents. This exemption is to insure the children dont have to sell their home to pay the tax bill and have nowhere to live. You have another house so you have somewhere to live and dont qualify for the exemption. I hope you can see where I coming from with this point. I am very sorry for your loss and it can make it worse by losing your family home and your parents. But you could sell the other property to pay the tax bill?
Paulownia wrote: » My mother died recently and she left me the house we live in and I’ll have to pay tax on the value when she died which seems very unfair because I have another house