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

You do understand the agent is playing you up? Stay put on what you offered.

Is it in Dublin?

Same thing happening to me right now. Was told by estate agent that if went to asking it would be ours. Now your man "wants time to consider". Question - can an estate agent tell a seller how much available funds buyer has...presume if so Ill get the "we've considered where things are in the market and a higher bid is warranted etc etc" next week...try to squeeze more out of me. Im bidding on another property, have a feeling Im very near final, and the above has me thinking to avoid the above property taking the proverbial. Told estate agent I want a response Monday morn or I move on

Hi all,

This is the sale timeline for an apartment I owned. It might be useful for anyone that is thinking about selling at the moment.

End of September 2022

Reached out to estate agent to discuss possibly selling my 'buy to regret' apartment.

October 22

Decided to sell, gave tenant notice. Ad published to daft, viewings start. Engage solicitor. Several viewings over the course of the month. I start asking around to help tenant find a new place. 

November 22

Two bidders emerge, go sale agreed 17% above asking in the middle of November.

December 22

Solicitor informs me I need to get a land registry compliant map, wish he has told me this at the start.

Couldn't get this done before Christmas. Hear through a contact of mine that an apartment is coming up for rent.

I put tenant forward for it be unfortunately she doesn't get the apartment.

January 23

Registry compliant map is completed, cost €600. Sent to solicitor. 

Buyer looking for contracts. My solicitor doesn't want to send contacts because tenant is still in situ.

Ask solicitor to send contracts and hope that tenant finds a new place before contracts are returned.

Tenant finds new place end of January.

February 23

Tenant moves out start of February, deposit returned.

Management company requests €500 to complete MUD replies, sale can't complete without this and 

buyer's solicitor won't proceed without it. Management company very slow sending this which delays things.

March 23

Contracts come back, signed by me and returned to buyers solicitor. 

End of March sale closed and good riddance!

6 months in total. Process was more complicated because I was selling an apartment, I had a sitting tenant, and there was a management company involved.

It's now a requirement when selling. I would check with your solicitor. Prices varied hugely, €600 was the cheapest I could find. Someone calls out to the apartment and measures it, locates the parking space and then creates the maps. The company I got to do it were very efficient and easy to deal with.

Not sure if I can post the site name here, DM me if you would like to know.

We were waiting for a cert to say a shed out back was exempt from planning. Got the cert but it has a few wrong details like mention of "1st floor" in a shed with a flat roof ffs. Closing date was mast Thursday so incredibly annoying that silly things like this are holding us up.

Hi hoping someone can give me an estimate as to how long it takes solicitor to send contracts to buyers solicitor once he/she has received the title deeds from the bank.

I know it's a broad question, just looking for a rough idea. Appears to be a straight forward sale, no boundary issues, no extensions etc

Sorry to hear it, the whole process is so deeply flawed.

There's something else out there, just keep looking!

I blame many people, the government first and foremost.

I also blame the EAs, the banks, and everyone involved in construction. It is my firmest belief that not a single one of them gives a sh*t about whether they do a good job, a bad job, or even no job. They know they'll get paid at the end of the day by the sucker buying the house who has no other choice.

We're waiting on the bank to approve a cert for a shed and then our solicitor can send signed contracts to the vendor. Had hoped to be in last week but hopefully 2-3 weeks... :/

To be fair to the solicitor, he said he can definitely fight the issues, but he just can't guarantee we'll get what we want, they only thing he can guarantee is a bill at the end. He's going to try and get the bank to qualify the title with what we have today anyway and if it gets shot down (which I'm expecting) then we go back to the search (Christ I hate the search).

I'm wayyyy more annoyed at the EA who refused to tell us why the last crowd pulled out of the house, and my solicitor suspects it was the same reason and could have saved me a couple of grand if she'd just been honest

After two years and over 20+ houses viewed, and being sale agreed on our dream house at Christmas and having to pull out due to serious boundary issues, we are finally sale agreed on a house we love in a great area. Everything has been moving along smoothly, and are also dying to get in ahead of the next rate increase on 05/05. We have loan offer and are awaiting vendor's contracts. Spoke with EA last week and he said that the vendor hopes to have the sale closed within 6 weeks. Anyone ideas on timelines for vendor's contracts? We are hoping of no unforeseen delays and potentially wondering if we could drawdown a little early to avoid a rate increase. The stress of it all!

Reading this forum it’s no wonder we have a housing crises. The amount of people tied up at sale agreed, contract stage etc and the time it’s taking to resolve issues, no wonder there is such a bottleneck. Of course nothing will change.

And do you believe everything an estate agent tells you??

Definitely don't take a financial advice from an estate agent.

I don't envy some of the people going through the process at the moment, and I'd be in no rush to go through it again myself.

I have a relative in NZ who is a single mother, and was recently told she had to leave her rental property as the owner was going to sell. The rental situation over there seems just as bad as here, and she didn't know what to do. She spoke to a financial advisor, and they asked whether she had considered trying to buy. This is something she never thought would be possible, but long story short, she collected the keys to her own house less than 6 weeks later. That's less than 6 weeks from the initial suggestion that she should consider trying to buy. I had to wait 6 weeks for the vendors of the house I bought to find a document they'd lost.

There's something seriously wrong about the way things are done over here.

Took us 4 months and pretty similar to yourself, would think it would be beneficial to the whole industry if the process was quicker, more turnover, more business for everybody involved.