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Finding out who owns a property

  • 30-08-2010 12:08PM
    #1
    Gone Fishin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭


    I was wondering, how do you go about finding out who owns a particular property? There is an abandoned, delapidated property in Dublin in a suburb I pass through when I get the bus. I really do think that it has potential. Nothing has happened to it in the last 6 years. How would I go about this?

    Thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    spoonface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭spoonface


    Gone Fishin wrote: »
    I was wondering, how do you go about finding out who owns a particular property? There is an abandoned, delapidated property in Dublin in a suburb I pass through when I get the bus. I really do think that it has potential. Nothing has happened to it in the last 6 years. How would I go about this?

    Thanks in advance.

    Go to your local authority (e.g. the Fingal CC HQ in Swords) and ask, they have maps and some details. I did this before about a wrecked house and found it was actually owned by the council ! Years later it's still lying idle.


  • #3
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    Council is the first port of call, some of them have lists of derelict houses/sites.

    Then if its not theirs I think you can you to the Land Registry and pay 5 or 6 quid to find out who owns the land. Then hope the house is owned by the same person who owns the land before approaching them.

    But at a guess Id say its the councils because a lot of derelict property in private hands was done up and resold during the boom. You could try to offer to buy it off them but if there's protected walls/ structures I don't think the cost of it and the amount of red tape would be worth it.


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