Currently buying/selling a house? How is it going? READ MOD NOTE POST #1

Hi Guys, we're trying to buy a house in the midlands. We were the first to put an offer in and the following week we were outbid and so came back with a really strong offer. Its been 3 weeks now with no higher offer. Really would have expected our offer to be accepted by now but starting to wonder to they really wan to sell or just seeing what they can get.

Forget about trying to get bill or receipts You can download the forms and fill them in and bring them to a commissioner of oaths who will sign and stamp them, Should only cost €20-€30 and you send them in to your local authority

https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/finance/nppr These are for Dublin, but your local authority should have similar

We are about to find out! Will come back with an answer in a week or so.

NPPR charges and declaration lasts for 12 years, but hey, if you know better.

You seem determined to make this hard for yourself. Myself and others have told you that you don't need receipts for this period.

They can be slow, but to be honest I have found the app excellent. No need to drop in to branch for anything. I am usually the first to criticise both AIB and BOI but pretty much all dealings with AIB so far have been really good.

We had to get a Cert of Exemption for the NPPR when selling. All we had to do was download a Statutory Declaration Form from the South Dublin County Council website, fill it in and our solicitor signed the declaration. We emailed it in to them and got the Cert in a couple days. No bills needed.

Picked up the keys to our house yesterday. I had resigned myself to never being able to buy, but a year ago we were given notice to move out of a house we had rented for 10 years, and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Once we got over the initial disappointment that our kids would no longer be able to live in the only home they've ever known, we put our heads down and did everything we could to put ourselves in a position to buy, and we managed to get there.

I could write a novel on all the different issues and delays that came up in the process. Even to the very last day, I had to push like mad to get it over the line, as there was talk of a further delay of 1-2 weeks due to a missing document from the vendors.

I don't even know how I feel, a combination of excitement and relief. I've been awake since 3am, head spinning with all the things we need to get sorted. Definitely looking forward to getting settled in the house, and of course the kids can't wait to be back living near their friends again. One thing I do know is that I won't be going through this again in a hurry!

If you bought a secondhand house in 2014 then your solicitor should have obtained proof of discharge or non-applicability of NPPR from the vendor and would simply be passing this on to the new purchaser’s solicitor.

Just needed a place where to vent. This is probably the 6th or 7th time in the last 2 years where we have to walk away from a property because we are getting outbid. There is only another bidder this time and he is raising 20k every time, pushing us quickly out of the limit we gave ourselves for this particular property, which is now 10% over asking. This is really depressing.

Wondering if someone can help with this question as our solicitor is difficult... We're currently in the process of buying a new build house. We used HTB and some of our own additional funds to pay the 10% deposit at contract signing stage. Our mortgage is 85% so I'm wondering when we pay the additional 5% deposit - is it at drawdown stage?

Not sure if it's different for new builds but we paid the balance of the 10% deposit to our solicitor just before the contract was signed, last week.They were then sent to the vendor.

We are getting the keys tomorrow (yippee !) So it is quite close to the end.