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

Make sure you go in with the snagger and point out everything you're not happy with. Look for things like a single coat of paint, any cracks or damage to woodwork, weird gaps in doors and cabinets.

Make sure to get up into the attic as well and look at the insulation. If you have a drone, send it up and look for cracked or loose tiles.

Write down EVERYTHING.

And bring some blue painter's tape to draw attention to the snags.

This comes from my experience of having a snagging engineer who was absolutely useless.

has anyone else noticed a lot of properties coming back on the market relatively soon after going sale agreed? I’ve seen 3 or 4 in my search area in the last couple of weeks. Any thoughts on why that might be and is it usual for that many to reappear? it’s not something I’ve noticed happening until recently.

I noticed that too lately. Not sure why. I did spotted couple who failed sale agreed twice and came back third time. Perhaps as null zero said, people loose themselves in the bidding wars.

I think the opposite…it's benefitting sellers getting an extra 50-100k second time round in a rising market. It was crazy out there, it's now gone full gaga.

At times I see houses that fell through coming back with 50 to 80k more on their price tag. Absolutely mental

Some agents are completely tools, no brain at all.

Example below. An estate where houses are sold very recently below 400k, houses poorly built, that don't retain heat, the materials that are made of are substandard, they crack. Basically they should be demolished as they are passed by sell by date. Yet this agent is putting this house on the market for over half of million.

The house market is completely bonkers.

https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/6-bayside-square-east-baldoyle-dublin-13/4756212

That is wildly overpriced by maybe 100k.

Hi all, how long does an estate agent normally wait for a chain to be completed before they move onto the next interested buyer (with no chain)

My partner and I are trying to buy a new build. We're AIP and have all our ducks in a row too.

The estate agent informed us that there was someone ahead of us and they were waiting for them to sell their previous house first.

They were given until the end of this month but, it looks like they've been given more time.

Is there any hope in waiting to hear back from them?

Went Sale Agreed on a house we're buying at the end of Feb. The whole process since has been relatively straight forward until now: Mortgage Protection.

Applied with Zurich and while I was accepted for cover, my wife was not. She has a congenital issue with her liver but is not considered medically high-risk. A letter from her consultant confirms as much; stated that it's benign, no symptoms in over two years, nothing to worry about etc. etc. It still wasn't enough.

So pivoted to Laya. Same story, denied.

Royal London have now come back to say they also won't cover.

We're going to go to the lender with these denials and request a deferral, but I'm starting to worry. I believe Pulse/OneLife is an option but I've no idea yet of what the premiums will be (I've heard they are quite high, as well as admin fees amounting to a few hundred). On top of this, the seller is getting impatient. The initial process to get to the Denied stage took 5 weeks due to delays in our GPs getting info to the providers. I doubt they'll wait another 5 before we even sign the contracts.

But anyway, just wondering if anyone on here has gone through similar, and how'd ye make it through? Oh, and we're being evicted in October as the landlord is selling 🎉

I have indeed and I do get the impression he's trying everything he can for us. Even looked at bringing in a second broker in tandem but they didn't want to be stepping on anyone's toes. Just got to let him cook, I guess. But I'm open to options that we can pursue ourselves.

Can you get cover which excludes the particular existing condition? Some additional risk for you if something does go wrong for your partner with that, but at least it would get the sale over the line

Hi, 2 years ago myself and my partner had bought a property using the Local Authority Home loan. 
my question is can we sell the property? Is there any penalties? Has anyone tried selling after buying using Local Authority Home Loan from the county council. 
Thanks in advance

myhome snafu for everyone yes?