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Selling to the council

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    #32
    jap gt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭jap gt


    Who do you contact about selling to the council


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    #33
    tretorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    Email or ring your local housing department. They should have a website and the contact details will be there. They should send someone out quickly and a decision made immediately as to whether they want the house ir not.

    The house I am selling is valued at 240 thousand, I presume the council wont go much above this price, this is a three bed house.


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    #34
    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭OU812


    tretorn wrote: »
    Email or ring your local housing department. They should have a website and the contact details will be there. They should send someone out quickly and a decision made immediately as to whether they want the house ir not.

    The house I am selling is valued at 240 thousand, I presume the council wont go much above this price, this is a three bed house.

    Is the house inside or outside Dublin?


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    #35
    tretorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    In Dublin, thats the going rate for the area and I didnt want a long drawn out sale.

    As I said I would think the council are mostly interested in houses valued under 300 thousand, they probably wont pay much more than that.


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    #36
    zreba
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭zreba


    tretorn wrote: »
    In Dublin, thats the going rate for the area and I didnt want a long drawn out sale.

    As I said I would think the council are mostly interested in houses valued under 300 thousand, they probably wont pay much more than that.

    How do people feel seeing that some people get free 300k worth houses while working middle-class is trying to get approvals for 200k mortgage?

    It's all upside down. Council houses are better than working people can afford to buy.


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    #37
    tretorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    Council tenants do pay rent, the house isnt exactly free.

    The rent is nowhere near market rate though and there is a big problem with some tenants not paying any rent at all.

    There is nothing the councils can do and the tenants know this, even if the family are evicted the council have to find them a house somewhere else especially if there are children. The process to evict them will take forever and cost a lot of money and the arreears will probably never be paid.


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    #38
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    zreba wrote: »
    How do people feel seeing that some people get free 300k worth houses while working middle-class is trying to get approvals for 200k mortgage?

    It's all upside down. Council houses are better than working people can afford to buy.

    Welcome to the land of milk and honey


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    #39
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    Ok just wondering how soon after the council inspects ( with an engineer)the property will they go with the valuation??


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    #40
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    Forgot to mention it's fingal


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    #41
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    when council make the offer and you accept it - how long does it take to get the booking deposit from them to officially go sale agreed (rather then "sale agreed in prinicipal" which is where its at)


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    #42
    bri007
    Registered Users Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭bri007


    Mod Note

    Ranting removed as unrelated to topic at hand.


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    #43
    machalla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭machalla


    How did this work out for the you rightmove? Did you go with the council sale in the end?


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    #44
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    machalla wrote: »
    How did this work out for the you rightmove? Did you go with the council sale in the end?

    4 months closed yesterday


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    #45
    Jules19
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Jules19


    Hi, I'm just looking into selling to the council and.found this thread. I'm just curious as to how you got on with your sale?


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    #46
    Jules19
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Jules19


    rightmove wrote: »
    Mine was empty ..yes
    Hi I'm just wondering how your sale went with the council


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    #47
    ccull123
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭ccull123


    Just wondering has anyone had any recent experience with this. Thinking of selling my apartment in south Dublin county and would appreciate a fresh insight into it. Thanks



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    #48
    mhdfornow
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭mhdfornow


    Currently selling to Cork county council through our auctioneer. Engineer and valuator has gone out to the property and it took 1&1/2 months for them to get it done. Still waiting for the senior manager’s decision to purchase, almost 2 months now since we offered the house to them.



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    #49
    mhdfornow
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭mhdfornow


    It’s not worth selling to the county council at all. They only offered €15k less than our asking price and the process will most likely take twice as the private sale. 👎

    We’re better off renting out the house as it will generate more income in the long run.



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    #50
    ccull123
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭ccull123


    Which city/county council was that with? Thanks for the info



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    #51
    ccull123
    Registered Users Posts: 587 ✭✭✭ccull123


    Which city/county council was that with? Thanks for the info



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    #52
    kcir345
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭kcir345


    I am thinking of selling to Dublin City Council. There are HAP tenants in the property. Has anyone gone through this process?



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    #53
    DownByTheGarden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭DownByTheGarden


    My rental apartment went on the Market recently and the council came in with an offer 10% higher than the other bids.

    Estate agent advised me to leave it another while as he said the council will bid again probably another 10% over that again.

    Had another bid €1000 euros over the councils bid and now today council have bid 15% over that bid again.

    I think im going to accept it. Its 35% over the original asking price at this point.

    I dont know what the process is after accepting the bid but if i find out they normally take more than 2 months max to close then i'll pull the plug on their bid. Im not interested in the slow wheels of bureaucracy.



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    #54
    herbalplants
    Registered Users Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭herbalplants


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120196060#Comment_120196060

    Great news, that is good outcome.

    Living the life



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    #55
    Ginger83
    Registered Users Posts: 3,449 ✭✭✭Ginger83


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120195708#Comment_120195708

    I don't think they buy with tenants



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    #56
    Dav010
    Registered Users Posts: 14,044 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120196060#Comment_120196060

    Great result.



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    #57
    DownByTheGarden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭DownByTheGarden


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120214981#Comment_120214981

    I accepted. I'll be glad when its gone. Even though I was making a profit on the rental it is a mugs game now and the risk is significant of it all going pear shaped. Glad to be out of it tbh.



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    #58
    the immortals
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭the immortals


    Hi, does anyone know if council will buy with sitting hap tenants?



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    #59
    Grumpypants
    Registered Users Posts: 7,755 ✭✭✭Grumpypants


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121192660#Comment_121192660

    It's called tenant in situ . Big push on for councils to step in and buy in these situations.


    Might get a bigger push post budget next week.



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    #60
    Emblematic
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Emblematic


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120209168#Comment_120209168

    They do in certain circumstances. Look up the "tenant in situ scheme". This enables tenants to keep their home when the landlord is selling up.

    I certain standard for the home is required however before the council will consider it for the scheme.



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    #61
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users Posts: 8,481 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109776763#Comment_109776763

    The councils are only doing as ordered by the government, and more specifically the minister for housing who is giving them the terms and budget to do this



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