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Extra costs when buying a property

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  • 10-06-2005 3:38pm
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    shakaman
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    Has anyone recently bought a house/apartment?, I'm about to put an offer in on a house I've just viewed and would appreciate some advice on what extra costs I can expect.

    I'm a first time buyer so I won't be paying any stamp tax as the property < €600k (obviously!!). I intend to live in the property and rent out the other room. I have the cost of the deposit and about €5/6k extra to cover costs. Just general costs of things like surveyors, solicitors etc. Also in what order are things done....offer -> acceptance -> surveyor -> solicitor etc?

    Any advice would be appreciated and even if anyone knows of any good sites to look this up on I've tried focusireland and threshold


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    Einstein
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    5/6K is plenty. goto www.myhome.ie and they have a pretty break down of various costs etc.

    Good luck

    dave


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    GeorgeBailey
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    shakaman wrote:
    I'm a first time buyer so I won't be paying any stamp tax as the property < €600k (obviously!!).

    The limit is actually 317500!


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    shakaman
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    GeorgeBailey wrote:
    The limit is actually 317500!

    I thought that limit was for people buying a second property?


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    Moonbeam
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    solicitor and surveyor are the only ones that I can think of


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    GeorgeBailey
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    shakaman wrote:
    I thought that limit was for people buying a second property?

    It used to be something like 190000 for first time buyers but that rose to 317500 in the last budget. I'm presuming you're buying a second-hand house here though!

    Link


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    shakaman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 271 ✭✭shakaman


    GeorgeBailey wrote:
    It used to be something like 190000 for first time buyers but that rose to 317500 in the last budget. I'm presuming you're buying a second-hand house here though!

    Link

    Excellent...thanks for that George!


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    Victor
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