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

I'm moving into a new self build that we just finished which is the reason I'm selling.

sellers probably couldn’t find a place to buy.

We’re looking in South Dublin and unless your house is sale agreed or on the market, you can’t make an offer on a house

nothing, he was useless and disinterested.

It took 9 months of pulling teeth with lenders, solicitors, and builders but my partner and I finally collected the keys to our first home yesterday

You can certainly ask the seller to get a plumbers report, and even to repair... But they're unlikely to do it in my opinion.

Someone selling a house is selling it as seen. If there are other bidders they'll probably still sell it easy enough without the hassle of getting repairs done.

As for the leaks, it's hard for anyone here to comment without seeing the house, or at least the current report.

For what it's worth we also had a leak that only presented after we moved in, turned out to be the seal around the bath and was an easy DIY fix.

Viewed an apt in South Dub yesterday, open viewing but genuinely around 50 people there. FML.

Hi All, not sure if this is the right place to post this but just looking for some advice.

Currently in the process of buying a house (terraced house) and had a private engineer in assessing. Their report showed up mostly minor things, but there was one item of concern they flagged: a crack in the ceiling in the service alley beneath the bedroom of the adjoining house. They have advised to "check that the source of the damage to the ceiling in the service alleyway has been rectified and, when satisfied, have it repaired, preferably in association with the owner of the adjacent property".

I'm just wondering how much concern I should have (if any) as it doesn't seem to be anything to do with the house I am buying. If I was to address this, how would I go about it or what would I do? Will try to attach a picture here

Is there any comeback to buyers that delay closing and in turn collapse the chain? We are sale agreed on our house sale for 5 months now. We agreed on a house purchase for over 2 months. Surveys completed on both. We delayed buying to ensure our money was almost 'in' from our sale to make us more attractive buyers. The sellers of the house we are purchasing agreed to sell to us on the condition all would be completed before Christmas. Our buyers will not be ready. We have no idea why. It looks like they pretended to be further on in their own sale than they were. So the chain has collapsed. We will lose the cost of our survey and solicitors fees. We were also renting rooms on our house for sale but that income is lost these past 6 months as the licensees were asked to leave for the sale.

I bought second hand but from friends it seems to generally be just the snag

To report back…

We were lucky that the vendors accepted our bid subject to our own sale, and we got our house up and sale agreed quickly over the summer. Closing date was fairly problematic.

We have 2 small kids, and tried to sell and buy (closing both) on the same day. There was slippage from both the vendor (not having certs ready) and the purchaser (not having mortgage drawn down and funds ready). The closing date moved by 3 days in the end.

When it moved from Monday to Tuesday, our original movers were no longer available. Our second movers said they could do Tuesday, but not Wednesday or Thursday. They packed up on Monday, arrived on Tuesday morning, loaded up the two big trucks (beds and everything) but by lunchtime it was clear that we couldn't close. The moving company were very clear that they had to unload the trucks that day.

We were very very lucky - the vendors had already moved out, and through the estate agent they allowed us access to the house we were buying, despite not having closed, but only to allow us unload our stuff and "store" it in that house until we actually closed the purchase. Legally, they didn't have to do this, and I still don't know what we would have done if they had said no.

Cut a long story short, we couldn't stay that night in the old house, since no beds etc, and we couldn't stay in the new house since we had not yet actually closed, so we stayed with relatives. Then on the following day we closed our old house sale, but didn't close our new house purchase, due to the funds not clearing in time, so we technically did not own any house, and again had a night with relatives. The following day we closed the purchase.

Our solicitor was great at keeping both purchasers and vendors onside, but the pinch point was the movers, who were inflexible (understandably so). We really had to embrace the uncertainty for a few days, packing up trucks not knowing if we would get keys that day or not, and sending the kids to school in the morning and not knowing where we would be staying that night. All in all, do-able but very stressful.

Posting this reply sitting on my couch in my partner and I's first home.

It was a very long and stressful process with planning permission rejection, being outbid more that I can even recall but we both couldn't be happier to have a place to call our own.

What are people paying for standard surveys for average-sized houses, including VAT?

About €550 I think, 3 bed semi.

Has anyone here ever withdrawn from a sale as a seller because the buyers were taking too long to sign the contracts? What were the costs incurred by the seller in such a situation?

Your solicitor will almost certainly charge for outlays and work during the process so far. It will obviously depend on your situation and how much work the solicitor has done but I was sale agreed on a house that fell through and was charged €390 (inc VAT) on top of the original quote. They don't work for free.

Your EA shouldn't charge you anything, but depends on the contract you signed with them I suppose.

Ask them both.