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

Yes EA love to play a game. I got similar experiences.

Good luck on the new purchase.

So got an update from my vendor through her EA on the house she’s bidding on. She is again the highest bidder and has set a deadline of tomorrow to hear back as she thinks she been taken for a ride….

yesterday I got my Mother in law to ring that EA to see what the story was with that house with a view to viewing it if the price was right etc… he quoted €12k over the current highest bid(my vendor)

was this to scare her off??? As my mother in law said thanks but no thanks as her budget was less €20k less than that figure.

I’d like to think he’s just scaring her off as my Mother in law wasn’t giving much info about herself only her budget etc. he’s from my town and have never heard of him as being that way but maybe it’s the way he does it. But I do find it strange.

Buying and selling at the moment and finding it utterly depressing how everything is costing far more than expected.

Paid out a small fortune on an engineer survey for the place we're buying and he's after strongly recommending a few other surveys including a drain survey that is coming in at around a grand. Got the solicitors estimate of costs this morning which was over a grand more than I was expecting. We're up at around €22000 in costs now.

It's the combined costs of buying and selling, 6.5k solicitors fee, 6k estate agent, 6k stamp duty and 1.5k engineer survey are the big ones.

Oh yeah he recommended everything under the sun but apparently the drain one is important because there's a big network of drains due to the amount of previous extensions and it has its own septic tank. Really is an added cost we could do without though.

Buying and selling is fecking stressful especially when you need to sell before you buy!

Landdirect shows houses that are land registry title. Not registry of deeds. It’s possible your property is registry of deeds. Purchasers of registry of deeds property since 2010 have to convert the title to land registry. It’s possible the other houses in the estate have been sold since 2010 and now registered in land registry.

You can ask your solicitor to check that out.

Thought we would be drawing down this week but seems like there's been a hitch..

1. Solicitor returned her undertaking to AIB on the 28th Sept.
2. Mortgage Cheque request was sent to AIB on the 3rd of Oct.
3. AIB informs us today that the undertaking has two mistakes the solicitor has to rectify and so they've posted back the undertaking today for it to be fixed. (literally one number and a date left out)
4. My valuation will expire in 3 days on the 12th..

I have a new one booked since 29th of Sept but no sign of it coming through yet.

My original valuation took 14 working days to come through. That was it's own headache as AIB were saying they didn't receive it and the valuer was saying they had sent it back.. after a few phone calls it magically appeared on the portal later that day.

Really hoping the additional valuation comes though soon and doesn't need a lot of chasing up...

Whole reason the valuation is expiring is because the vendor took 7 weeks to exchange contracts. It's been a nightmare..

There's nothing like it Red. Sit down at the kitchen table with a cup of tea and think to yourself "this is mine!".

Congratulations on owning your own little piece of Ireland.

so I went sale agreed on a probate house 5 days ago.

What questions should I be asking and to who regarding the probate process. My solicitor says he has to wait for their solicitor to reach out to him. Should I be getting a pre purchase survey done now or should I wait? I know it will be a long process but I just want to make sure im on top of it from the get go

Hey, after years of looking I went sale agreed on a house about 2 months ago. Both sellers and ourselves wanted to move fast which all seemed great.

We got our engineer out as you do, he said the house was in great condition (house is about 20 years old) but theres been a few modification since the original plans and the seller will need to send on the planning permissions/certs of compliance, no big deal. Problem is, once we said this to the sellers they started making a big song and dance about how they havent made and structural changes since there were there so its weird for us to ask. Not only that, they are now threatening to pull out because, as they put it, we are "dragging our heals".

Annoying thing is the house seems to be in great shape and our engineer is confused why they wont just get/show the proper paperwork. Im starting to think the sellers are either trying to hide something or they dont actually want to sell for one reason or another. Has anyone ever come across anything similar?

Yes, this has been our experience too, in the house we are buying. Onto the next stage for us, signing over our current house to the purchasers, and going the next step on the house we are buying, after a similar issue with a drain under the garage. Talk about things dragging on and on. It has been a very frustrating few months for us.

It happened to me with an apartment. The vendors prevaricated with sending financial reports of the management company. When they finally arrived, it turned out that they had feck all in their reserve fund, and there was a known (but not publicly announced) issue with the properties. I pulled out for this reason as I was likely buying a lemon.

In your case, delaying the issuing of documents seems to be at odds with wanting a quick sale. It could just be a slow solicitor, however.

It sounds like there's something suspicious there. We sold our house during the summer. We had an extension and an attic conversion and one of the first things our solicitor told us when we instructed her was to get our documentation in order for both. We had an engineer certify both as exempt from planning and had that ready for our solicitor to give the buyers solicitor from the outset. Was honestly no big deal so I'd question why they're dragging their feet on it