House Swap?

moz k

Hi - I am just wondering if anybody has any information about House Swapping? Living in a rural area and potentially looking to move to urban area - south Dublin preferably and just looking to find out about house swaps - do they exist in Ireland?

pwurple

They do exist, my grandparents did it to move about 3 decades ago. But i'd say you would need a much more bouyant market to do it now.

I was house hunting all of last year, and the reasons the house was being sold was generally one of three

Occupant had died
Occupant's marriage had broken down
Ex rental.

Very few people wanting to move just to change house these days.

quietsailor

It'd be worth putting an add up on Daft or MyHome.ie. I'd think your going to get a lot of nosy people contacting you just out of curiosity ie no intention of swapping but as it's cheap you won't be out of pocket.

However I have absolutely no idea how you'd go about wording it!

Poochie05

I've heard about people swapping council houses but not private houses. Might be worth looking on adverts sites such as Done Deal? I would imagine it could be done but sorry, I don't have a clue how you'd go about it. Not much help, sorry!

D3PO

kind of a pointless process. You are still libel for stamp duty and all the other property related taxes.

Why would somebody narrow themselves to only being able to deal with somebody who has a property that works for you. Sell move and buy.