Buying a gaff

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Now I'm conscious that most posters here live in their parent's attic, but there are probably a few who have hopped on the property ladder.

My question is as follows.

How much would you want to be setting aside for "costs" such as solicitors, valuations, and any other shit that might not be immediately obvious?

It's all well and good to find a house and say €500k, perfect. But there must be a fair bit of extra cash required on the side is there?

Any smart comments will see you immediately removed from the guestlist for my housewarming party. Unless you're Matlock, who is always welcome to call round for a cuppa.

 

[Hallbopping]

Now I'm conscious that most posters here live in their parent's attic, but there are probably a few who have hopped on the property ladder.

My question is as follows.

How much would you want to be setting aside for "costs" such as solicitors, valuations, and any other shit that might not be immediately obvious?

It's all well and good to find a house and say €500k, perfect. But there must be a fair bit of extra cash required on the side is there?

Any smart comments will see you immediately removed from the guestlist for my housewarming party. Unless you're Matlock, who is always welcome to call round for a cuppa.

Surely Matlock should do all the legal stuff for you pro bono.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Surely Matlock should do all the legal stuff for you pro bono.

Matlock is transporting all my boxes of stuff to the new house, she won't have time for any legal stuff

 

[Cormac]

Surely Matlock should do all the legal stuff for you pro boner.

Fyp

 

[Matlock]

Surely Matlock should do all the legal stuff for you pro bono.

I'm no conveyancer! I didn't even buy my own house.

 

[Roxetten]

At a rough guess I'd say €6000, it was less in my day.

The engineers report did cost €250 as I recall.

 

[Roxetten]

I'm no conveyancer! I didn't even buy my own house.

^Wait til SoundMan reads this.

 

[El Guapo]

Best of luck.

I wouldn’t wish it on Hitler.

it took us 6 years and that was 10 years ago now.

Estate agents are uniformly assholes and will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

the whole process is basically comparable to Brian Keenan's time in the Lebanon

 

[Hallbopping]

My boss was very excited a few weeks ago when a house she’s buying went sale agreed.

I asked her where the house was.

Mullingar.

Fermoy doesn’t seem so bad after all.

 

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

I owned a doll's house when I was small but I still don't think my Dad handed over the papers