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Country house buying is auctioneer lying?

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  • 14-05-2015 9:08pm
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    marsbar1
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭


    Keeping this brief. I offered and the house went sale agreed 9 months ago. The house is part of a 90 acre plot, of which 3 is going to be kept and fenced off around the house that I'm buying. The auctioneer from the very start has said the rest of the land will be sold on for forestry. Given the long delays I smell a rat. Online, the 90 odd acres does not show sale agreed although the auctioneer assures me that it is sold. Am I right to be suspicious here?

    What I worry about is somebody buying the land next to me and applying for planning to build a house. The whole point of me buying this house was to have no neighbours. Should I trust the auctioneer??


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    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    marsbar1 wrote: »
    Should I trust the auctioneer??

    Absolutely, they're all grand lads.


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    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    you broke my sarcasm meter


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    dixiefly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,949 ✭✭✭dixiefly


    The only way you can be certain that no one will attempt to build or at least look for permission to build beside you is for you to buy that land yourself.


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    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    You could go to council planning dept,
    see can you find out is there any plans for the land around you.
    Otherwise ,if you can build a house on site,1 ,
    its likely other people can do the same near you in future .
    Unless the land around is zoned for just farming .or forestry use.
    look on council website .
    I Know someone ,bought a small farm.10acres,
    knocked down old house 50 years ,old
    and just built a 5bed house in the same place .
    He owns 5 acres either side ,so no one can build close to his house.
    Ask him have you any documents to show the land is sold to council or some other government body.


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