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

It's up to you, but probably worth doing. I used property health check, and they identified a leak in the downstairs toilet, but not in the upstairs one (which is more of an issue). They also didn't identify that 3 upstairs lights had no power going to them at all. If we didn't have an electrician in the family, the issue with the lights could have ended up being an expensive fix.

We are selling our house, which is sale agreed. The buyers have done their property survey nearly 2 weeks ago, and now want to arrange a damp surveyor to come also in almost 2 weeks from now, which really doesn't suit us as we need to move quickly.

Is this common? As far as know no damp issues were raised in by the original property surveyor.

Does anyone have experience with qualification of title and positive outcomes?

Hi AH92 👋

Im in the same boat 🤦‍♀️ Folio is in Council name, it was a council build in the 70s, house has been inherited by son who is now selling. "Allegedly" council have agreed verbally that the house is legit belonging to the son and all they need to do is sign a transfer order into his name, advised this by vendor solicitor through EA. Sale agreed since 1st Dec 😵‍💫 with no end in sight!!

Anyone been through an online bidding process, come out as the top bidder, above the asking price, and seller still not happy with the price?

Anyone know how long BOI are taking to issue loan offers these days?

Our buyers are just kicking off the process now, even though we've been sale agreed for 4 weeks

After getting the property survey back we have the wind taken out of our sails a bit, everything else trucking along nicely - got the loan offer yesterday too but we were too bummed out about the survey to celebrate! Finding the survey report a bit difficult to interpret, on first read seems all seems atrocious, second read less so etc.. language open to interpretation and probably a bit of arse covering going on.

One question I have is, where the surveyor has suggested further inspection is required, on two specific issues he had said it should be arranged by the vendor. Would that be the norm? Do we ask the EA to sort that or go through solicitor? The main issue seems to be placement of a velux window in an attic conversion which may need to be removed if can't get exception.

Other main issue is kitchen extension roof 'needs to be replaced' but no indication of how urgently. We intend to knock and extend anyway in a few years so not sure if we're ok to last til then.

Anyone else struggled with survey reports and the ensuing disillusionment??

Survey done - No major issues - One Drain blocked with soil - He recommended a camera survey of the drains and when I asked about getting a utilities survey, he recommended maybe getting the plumbing surveyed, but I'm not sure I will be arsed. There is a new boiler in etc, so I imagine they must have looked at that themselves

Mine was with propertyhealthcheck.ie completed this morning. The guy rang me after it to give me the low-down in advance of the report.

I had expected to hear a fairly arse-covering non-committal account which would leave me a bit worried and having to parse out whether there was anything substantial, but his first sentence was "Good news, no major issues" - which caught me by surprise.

I don't mean to sound gloating or anything here, that's not the purpose of my response, but rather to indicate that if the surveyor does indicate some major issues - it might need to be taken seriously. Hope it all works out for you anyway, I was quite nervous about our survey, it is tough to come that far, especially in the current climate and receive a set back, but hopefully all is resolvable for you without too much hassle.

Completed a purchase of an apartment in Dublin on my own and moved in a few months ago. I really like the area but just cant settle in the apartment at all. I feel like I have made a major mistake in purchasing the apartment and should have waited and bought a house with my partner. I feel like I blew all the advantages that would be open to a FTB for us both going forward.

I contributed almost 20% of the funds to the purchase from my savings and I'm getting worried that if prices were to drop, I'd be back to square one minus most of my savings. Would it be foolish to sell so soon? I want to give it a fair chance but worried I'm wasting time on something that was never going to be my final planned home and with an impending price crash. I know I can expect some loss on the valuation as well as estate agents, bank fees, etc.

very disappointed today, we were due to view a house we think we want later on today but the vendor pulled out as the house was untidy! She knew about it since last Saturday and is now heading off on holidays and we can’t view until the 30th of June!!! Going nuts!!

Hi all,

Purchased a house from plans in 2019 long story short house is finally in the closing stages waiting on Irish water for connection. We have a letter of offer from Avant with interest rate of 3.3% fixed. Their rates are due to go up tomorrow the 16th. Are we going to have any hope of retaining this interest rate for when we draw down which we are hoping to do before the end of the month. We signed the letter of offer on the 2nd of June. I heard they give a certain amount of grace when you have been given a certain rate?

Hey!

I feel so bad for you we feel frustrated waiting this long but can only imagine how you're feeling. Now we're told it might be a couple of months to sort out as sellers solicitor still has to transfer folio from council over. Simply fuming over this as we were hoping to avoid any interest rate rises.

My sister was bidding on a house with one other party. They had put in a bid of 465k, however did not hear again from the EA. When they enquired to the EA, he informed them that the vendor had accepted the other offer of 470k cash offer. I find this weird that 1) the EA didnt contact them to inform them of the other offer and 2) ask them if they wanted to submit a counter offer. I have a feeling there is something back handed going on. They informed the EA that they would like to make a counter offer of 482,500. However the EA informed them that the property was sale agreed and deposit had been paid.

What are people's thoughts on this practice? Is this normal?