Currently buying/selling a house? How is it going? READ MOD NOTE POST #1

Proof of Funds - do you show your savings statement or transfer savings to your current account and have a statement for the current?

On average about 3 months from paying the deposit to getting the keys the last time I bought.

I did this exact thing just a few weeks ago. Bring a drivers license or passport and the details you want to transfer and they will be able to process it in the bank.

thats ridiculous sorry to hear that. this whole process is frustrating. did you call the estate agent and tell them you were under impression that probate was submitted. i find there's a lack of communication between the vendor and buyer solicitors etc so maybe estate agent might have a clearer picture.

No luck at all. Still having lots of viewings but no offers. House is listed below what it was valued at and is sitting online for the last 5 weeks. EA keeps saying all we are missing is an offer to get the ball rolling but still waiting. Don't understand it

Sale agreed just before lockdown in March 2020. House nearing completion with a view to a closing date next month. It feels like it has been a life time.

yes you can. We transferred the remaining of our deposit similar way last week. Good luck .

Thanks yeah, they were either misinformed or are playing dumb. Not much we can do about it unfortunately.

think you better check other threads for some updates on this, like this one https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058202484/looking-to-move-wtf-is-going-on-with-prices#latest

You can transfer the balance at the counter in your branch

no limit on over the counter transactions

you can transfer up to 10k daily at the in bank machine (AIB )

Be very careful with agents, another hard lesson learned when I bought my house. They want you to buy the house so they may omit to give you important information or as is the case here - get it completely wrong. I would always counsel that the vendors agent is not your friend, no matter how nice they seem. Any information required should be gathered from their solicitor by yours.

Generally find this to be the case too. Many of them claim to know literally nothing about the property they're trying to sell and when questions are asked just say they'll ask the vendor (and if there's already bidding from other parties, they may just not ask the vendor and eliminate you from the process entirely).

Having sold recently, I can safely say my estate agent did not know the answers to the most basic questions about my property - how could they, they never asked.

It's tactical I'd imagine. While most of the places they sell won't have any underlying issues, some will and it's morally easier to only suspect rather than know about any potential issues.

My agent selling seemed to be pretty decent, no sloppy mistakes anyway.

Looking to buy now and some a fairly bad. I get the market is strong so they don't need to cosy up to potential buyers. But in one case, I viewed a house where there was one bidder at asking. Got the impression they weren't keen on this bidder, agent said offer 5k more and vendor would take it off the market. I said fair enough but could we get answers to a few questions the agent didn't know the answers to (VERY basic stuff such as when was it built etc) and sent an email literally minutes after the viewing.

Over a week later, still haven't heard back. Ad on daft has been pulled down and re-uploaded so as to make it seem "new".

The agent may not have gotten a good vibe off us or considered is serious (we are - mortgage approved and money from previous sale sitting there ready to go), but if I were the vendor and my agent just ignored/forgot about a viewer who was interested enough to follow up after the viewing, I'd be raging.