Irish Property Market chat II - *read mod note post #1 before posting*

how can you possibly say that…it was a labour government who’s belief for over 100 years is more tax to pay for an increase in public spending. Its not something that needs to be spelled out.

I'm a labour voter and one of there policies is a huge contributer to why your taxes are falling. Free third level education brought the Celtic tiger economy zooming up the value chain leading to record tax receipts

Do you think FFG squandering your taxes to the tune of upto 40/50% per unit to provide a unit of housing to one private citizen when we are on record wages will help reduce your taxes

It is astonishing that our best, brightest and consequently our best paid are unable to see this, maybe they are too busy to give it 5 minutes thought.

Everytime labour have been in government, the country has been in a much better position financially, economically and sustainably than when they took over.

Additionally when tough decisions need to be made, they did it regardless of whether it damaged the party

In the UK, Years of conservatives privatising public services has resulted in investment funds asset stripping, loading with debt, collect the bill payments with little investment in infrastructure meaning services are no longer fit for purpose. Continue untill taxpayer bailout is required

Which is more damaging for taxpayers?

serious wobbles in stock market at moment with japan seeing biggest drops since 1987 and likes of warren buffett offloading huge portion of apple to build 277 billion dollar cash war chest

oil at 7 month lows despite major war brewing in middle east

wonder will see more ecb interest rate drops to help drive more property prices rising here

VIX (fear guage) up 170%

This is going to keep happening as long as there are no consequences for this kind of behaviour. I don't know whether this qualifies as illegal behaviour, but it is ethically bankrupt. Keeping your word and honouring an agreement should be fundamental to doing business, and in most cases they are.

However, it should be noted that the property owner is at fault here too. The houses would not have gone sale-agreed without the owner's agreeing to sell his/her property to the potential buyer.

I bought in the last couple of months, believe it or not the estate agent didnt pass our €10,000 higher bid to the sellers. Suspecting something was up I knocked down to the sellers myself and they informed me that the estate agent said "the people viewing over the weekend were not interested so you might aswell just accept the only bid available".

Despite me having email proof of the €10,000 higher bid. Needless to say they fired the EA on the spot and went with us.

This EA is fairly popular in the Dublin market, whatever about trying to scam buyers but ripping off sellers is fairly unbelievable.

It wasnt that EA no.

Thanks very much :) and yes its one of the most stressful experiences i've ever had, delighted to be done with unscrupulous EA's.

It's a long road and we lost out on another house which was probate despite having a higher bid under slightly weird circumstances where you can't just knock down to the house because nobody lives there.

The EA pressuring the sellers to accept an offer on Sunday despite us viewing it on Saturday and informing them we would be bidding, after the sellers wanted to wait until Monday to see if any other offers came in the EA hilariously said " you'd only be beating a drum thats already been beaten".

A friend of my family is also an EA and she put it well by saying "there is pressure from every corner, family, friends neighbours to tip the scale in somebodies favour, especially in this tough market."

It was exactly at asking price, not a euro more. The EA continued to say we never bid despite us having and showing the sellers proof. Granted it is good to give people the benefit of the doubt but in this case unfortunately they were crooks in my opinion.

The more high rate taxpayers vote for FFG. The more they squander there taxes

I wonder is that related to the rent relief and tenants petitioning their landlords to become legit.