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

What do those 3 things usually add up to on your typical 300k semi-d if you don't mind me asking please?

Okay not so bad so thanks.

super stuff!!!

Has many people been asked for a declaration of identity from your solicitor? Is this a new thing? I rang my estate agent and is not familiar with it . Got a load of requests off solicitor yesterday, claiming banks are looking for this document now.

I already got the survey done, now I have to ask him out again to do this it seems .

First viewings of our house later this morning! Thank feck I’m at work!

the nervousness I have is if people like our home! We take great pride in it. It’s not a huge house 1012sqft but it’s a great starter house, if you think along those lines

From photos we’re very interested in a property that was sale agreed but is now back on the market. We will find out in a few days when I view the property but just wondering is the estate agent likely to tell me what the house went sale agreed at previously if I ask or are they entitled to keep that private? Right now there are no bids on the property. Thanks

Delighted for you both! Hope the move going well. We have 2 rooms painted and furniture delivered now, and moving commencing today! Its amazing to finally be on our own home, so chuffed!

As a first bid, I'd take that pretty well. We saw a house go from 10k under to 72k over in about 4 weeks that I was watching.

If the house wasn't attractive, it wouldn't be getting a bid at all.

We are looking at our third house having gone sale agreed on now, after the bank said no to the second one. Our solicitor had told us this was likely the case but the estate agent said to try anyway. After informing her of the banks decision, she said this is the point the solicitors hash out the details but the seller solicitor was useless before and see no reason to wait now that we've got a third house we have gone sale agreed one. In a much more promising state of affairs, the new seller's solicitors has told the seller to get a cert of compliance this week before sending us contracts so at least this solicitor is trying to play ball. Fingers crossed we get moving before the interest rate hike

So continues year 4 of attempting to get a home :D

Its just radio silence from my solicitor and theirs, original target date was Paddys day but still sitting here checking my phone every 10 minutes.

10 days ago my solicitor said they had a request in with the sellers solicitor for a closing date, funds have been ready to go for the last 6 months, house has been empty for a year now, absolutely infuriating.

I hate that this is the advice I've been given and which seems to work but it really does appear to be a case of the squeaky wheel gets the grease. My wife's cousin rang every day looking for updates from everyone he could get a hold of and really had no lengthy delays at all. If I give anyone in the process a bit of free reign, things slow down immediately. I'm sure you know this and are already on top of it, but god it's a further indictment of how shoddy the process is in Ireland.

Installing fiber already!? by god that was fast! Congrats though! Delighted for you!

Sounds like you are getting on great. We got painting done over the weekend, and made up some ikea furniture, we really wanted to get the sitting room done and our sons bedroom, so can tick them off the list now, but it took a lot longer than we anticipated, total amatures!!! Have broadband coming today, bins and electricity sorted, fill of oil on the way, and a lot of stuff packed, so hoping to take Friday off and get everything moved in over Fri and Sat.

Its a bungalow in the country, we love it, but we are just realising the amount of work that it will take to keep it maintained! The lawn is over an acre, going to have to get a super dooper lawnmower to keep it cut! But its all good stuff, we have a lifetime to get on tope of everything, its just so exciting to finally be in! Its very surreal

We moved in over the weekend. Can't believe the amount of "stuff" we had... As with others we're noticing bits and pieces here and there that need fixing or replacing. Thankfully I'm handy enough so I'll give most of it a go myself but the costs are adding up already!