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Question regarding landlord "selling" house

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  • 21-03-2018 2:18pm
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    n97 mini
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    Apologies if this has been covered before.

    A friend was renting a house close to us for a number of years. The landlord told him last summer he was selling and gave notice (correct duration) along with a affidavit of sort from a solicitor stating the landlord was selling the house.

    Five months after our friend moved out and the house is advertised to let again. There was never any For Sale sign in the front or back garden in those five months.

    What would the RTB's view of this be? The house is in the Greater Dublin Area, and other houses in the area are being snapped up very quickly when they come up for sale.


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    El Weirdo
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    The landlord should at the very least have given first refusal of the lease to your friend.

    Tell your friend to get on to the RTB.


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    Captain Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭Captain Flaps


    Search the address, if it's been up for sale at all since your friend vacated then it'll pop up on Daft or an agent's site. Sounds pretty likely to be dodgy though, would certainly report them.


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    Samuel T. Cogley
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    Raise it with the RTB.


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    NuMarvel
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    Maybe check the Residential Property Price Register to see if the property has been sold: https://www.propertypriceregister.ie/website/npsra/pprweb.nsf/PPR?OpenForm.

    It could be the case that the property was sold and the new owner bought it as an rental investment.


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    n97 mini
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    NuMarvel wrote: »
    Maybe check the Residential Property Price Register to see if the property has been sold: https://www.propertypriceregister.ie/website/npsra/pprweb.nsf/PPR?OpenForm.

    It could be the case that the property was sold and the new owner bought it as an rental investment.

    Good point, but it went up for rent at the start of the month and the landlord was in the house at the weekend.


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    NuMarvel
    Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭NuMarvel


    n97 mini wrote: »
    Good point, but it went up for rent at the start of the month and the landlord was in the house at the weekend.

    You mean the guy who was selling it? In that case, then yeah, it's unlikely it's been sold.

    As others have said, your friend should get in touch with the RTB. The tenancy acts provide for a dispute resolution mechanism when the terms of termination notices and statutory declarations haven't been fulfilled.


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    Mrs OBumble
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    Captain Flaps wrote: »
    Search the address, if it's been up for sale at all since your friend vacated then it'll pop up on Daft or an agent's site.

    Not necessarily, there are still quiet sales with no visible marketing done. I've seen an agent in Galway advertising for properties to sell that way fairly recently.

    That said, it's likely that it was dodgy. But not guaranteed, possibly he really did intend to sell but there's some problem with the title or planning.


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    10pennymixup
    Registered Users Posts: 516 ✭✭✭10pennymixup


    Did your friend leave a forwarding address with the LL?


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