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

They'll send on all relevant documentation so your solicitor can raise any pre-contract queries. Have you any contact with the vendor's estate agent? Could you get in touch with them to move the process along? They will be as keen to close out on the sale as you are.

Well I have been in contact with the EA to get structural survey etc organised. I am told the owner does want to get the process moved along quickly and does have an outstanding mortgage on the property. I do wonder if that does slow down requesting the deed etc.

Buying and Selling, currently!

Went SA on our own house last April, trying to encourage the purchasers of our home to get moving, quite literally.

The docs are with their solicitor, and I have called the EA who sold our house for us to encourage them to close the sale of our house, as we are almost ready to go sale agreed on another property. They seem to be very slow, hope they're not getting cold feet, or it's back to square one again.

There are a few houses we like, in the Celbridge/Kilcock areas. One semi-d is almost reaching 490000! It is a nice house, well-built, but needs to be brought into the 21st C. There is no shortage of bidders.

We had a similar situation to this when selling our house, and we needed a quick sale as we were sale agreed on another property.

It took me getting seriously p*ssed off and hounding our EA constantly for updates from our purchasers and basically giving an ultimatum for them to get their a**e in gear if they want to buy the property or we would find new buyers. We are now thankfully much further along since I started hassling everyone and they are signing contracts this week.

Everything takes time: Loan offer, bank valuation, property survey, solicitor queries etc etc etc so you really need to keep on top of where things are at with the buyers. If they're dawdling and having second thoughts then the sooner you get rid of them and get new reliable buyers the better

Yes, you can just go into a branch. Make sure you have ID etc.

Sale agreed since Jan and looking like it will fall through due to their solicitor incompetence and title issues. Went back on the market this week to have a look in Dublin and after viewing some houses i've been told they're gone up 60-70k in less than a week. Completely demoralized as I thought we were past this stage.

Ah okay, that’s something I’ll keep an eye on so. Bank has no issue as they know we won’t be able to buy and pay a deposit unless our house is sold first.

Thats a totally normal situation. Solicitors and EAs will have it all in hand as they deal with trader uppers every day. Pay your booking deposit. They know if you have to sell, the difference will come out of the sale price.

The contracts might be bulky, but you are paying your solicitor to read them for you, to explain the meaning of them to you, and to point out any noteworthy or unusual clauses. So you don't have to do this yourself.

When people say "never sign anything you haven't read" they are right - you should read every word of a contract the other side of a transaction puts in front of you. Or even better, get a professional to read it for you and advise you. In conveyancing, that is literally what you are doing - paying a solicitor to review the contract and advise you. That said, talk to the solicitor and make sure that you are clear on closing dates, whether the contract is subject to your financing (whether you can pull out if you can't get a mortgage), whether it is subject to anything on the builder side such as potential cost increases, potential changes in house design, garden shape etc.

Sigh, on to the next hurdle in this godawful process. After some issues raised in survey results and getting structural engineer in for second opinion we renegotiated sales prices to take into account necessary remedial works.

Our solicitor has just come back to us today to say that the vendor's solicitor is refusing to provide exemption/compliance certs for additional works done to property many years ago. Our lender will not grant mortgage unless all documentation in place. Vendor's solicitor says it is up to us to apply for them.

To put it very lightly, this is rubbing me up the wrong way. It just seems wrong that a buyer would have to seek documentation to certify works undertaken by the seller. It also adds significant delays to the process as I understand it will likely be a couple of months for that process with authorities, regardless of who applies.

I simply can't get my head around why a vendor would not sort this prior to putting house on market, and expect a FTB to take on that extra burden. Especially where probate already done, so ample time was there to sort this.

Am I overreacting? Have others gone through anything similar? Feel free to message me if you have any insights or advice. We are now back to seriously considering walking away, except now down the cost of legal fees as well as structural engineer report, lost time which could have been spent on another property, and a sour taste in our mouth.

Yeah we didn't so we postponed the meeting. Have got them since and have gone through them today and will meet next week.

Cheers.

Offer in on house we love! This is the house!! We’ve offered slightly under asking as the offer before was €23k less.. it’s a big jump… hopefully she accepts

That is a massive hurdle to over come. Just simply both loving a house and it being within budget can be hard to find so great to hear. Best of luck

Thanks. Hoping it all goes well

What are potential blockers with converting attic to bedroom? Apart from budget, what sort of planning permission is needed?

Reason being, we're looking at 3 beds, but neighbours in some houses we're viewing have attic conversions with windows.