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

Its just for themselves. I know lots of people who are wetting themselves over the BER both buying and already living in the house. I dont think they understand at all how subjective the BER is.

When we bought our house it was a D2 and I have since spoken to neighbours who said that quite a few potential buyers were put off by the BER.

We spent a few thousand euro (most of it was on a solar system that we wanted anyway) and its a B2 now. But we only spent on the things we had to change anyway as well as a few extras that were easy and cheap to do like roll out new insulation in the attic and change the lightbulbs.

When I hear people wetting themselves about a high BER and telling me they wont even condsider buying a house less than a B etc, i just nod and think to myself - fools and their money.

Hi, just wondering for anyone selling on here what is generally deemed an ok agent fee? Being quoted around 1.5% mark plus vat and outlay on marketing. Thanks

Yeah 1.5% is standard plus vat! She’s included the marketing in the 1.5% which is good

Hi all,

We have been sale agreed for about 5 weeks now and were hoping for a very quick sale (like everyone I’m sure!). Our solicitor has already completed the pre-contract queries, and we are simply waiting for the formal loan offer to issue. We had originally gone for Avant, but had to abandon that (another long, frustrating story). We are now waiting on the LO from PTSB. We got an amended AIP last week (14/6), but does anyone know how long it takes after that? Valuation report, and survey report already submitted (house is 100+ years old). Thanks!

Thanks! Hopefully it will be soon. We are with a broker also, but everything just feels so slow!

So update on this from me in case anyone else experiences something similar - 11 days passed so I decided to call back the mortgage valuation phone number. Agent there tells me they can see that the estate agent assigned the valuation completed it on the 14th but a part was missing so they sent it back to them.

The agent also lets me know the firm doing the evaluation. I then call up the estate agents who were assigned the valuation. They tell me they completed it 100% (doing them all the time they know they did it right etc) and that they had submitted it. They even text me a picture of the screen on their portal saying thanks it's completed.

I have a mortgage advisor in AIB so I then got onto him and he said he should be able to see it if that's the case, but he can't so he will chase it up.

About 3 hours later the report pops up in my online portal.

I thought this stage would be easy and hands off once paid for, but nah needed to do some chasing.

Are your buyers expecting the have the dishwasher?

If not, then no harm in there being none there, it's not really as essential as a fridge/cooker/washing machine.

If they are expecting it to be there as part of the sale, then I would arrange a repair and pay for it even if it's past the day you move out.

Is it a decent dishwasher? A lot of integrated ones are rubbish. The buyers might prefer to invest in a new one, so you could just offer them a bit of cash towards that instead.

No it's terrible. It's from Ikea and it's 8 years old. We got all our appliances with our Ikea kitchen at the time and the induction hob, oven, microwave and extractor have all been bulletproof (except for the aforementioned hob which broke down a couple of weeks back).

can someone tell me, does having planning permission granted add value to the proprty if your planning on selling it.

house valued for let’s say €400,000 having planning permission for a double extension granted will it add much money onto the price tag?

thanks in advance.

How's the market lately in terms of bidding mania? Sale agreed for 4 months but we might have to pull out due to title issues. Fuming about this but oh well.

Has anyone also used the Moovingo crowd?

Cork market seems strong to me

Tell me more - our mortgage fixed term is up this month and refixing is going to cost us a bomb as we've a C2 rating and can't get the BOI green rate.