Quick update for anyone interested.
Council increased their original offer today by 5k and I accepted.
Now over to the solicitors..
Quick update for anyone interested.Hi.
I'm in the process of selling my house to council.
Contacted them in October after I gave notice to HAP Tennant.
Very slow in terms of communication from the council.. when you email them you get no reply and when you phone them usual reply is the person you need us not available.
Anyhow things started to move in Dec and the council sent an engineer to inspect house and also a second person to value the house.
In early Feb they offered 10k below what I had it valued at.
I have not accepted and asked them to improve offer. I haven't heard anything since.
where you asked to return deposit to tenant in advance of closing?Similar experiences to above.
SDCC offered €10,000 below my valuation and eventually increased it by €5,000
Also a lot of the information that was being requested by SDCC, I needed to get onto another section of SDCC for that information.
Frustrating but got there in the end.
For someone like me who has just gone sale agreed. What advice would you give me in terms of speeding up the process?Similar experiences to above.
SDCC offered €10,000 below my valuation and eventually increased it by €5,000
Also a lot of the information that was being requested by SDCC, I needed to get onto another section of SDCC for that information.
Frustrating but got there in the end.
Have your NPPR cert ready for your solicitor ( if required) I think only year 2013 is applicable - you either paid the fee or have an exemptionFor someone like me who has just gone sale agreed. What advice would you give me in terms of speeding up the process?
Is there certain documentation etc that I should start getting ready?
I went sale agreed month ago with council and still not closed. The council's solicitors lost the contracts and deeds. I agreed to sell for less than market value based on a quick sale.Update we are sale agreed since Dec 15th with FCC and queries are still going back and forth between my solicitor and FCC. What is most annoying is most queries FCC have the answers to-which local authority is responsible for the property and fire cert. Both documents my solicitor had to pay FCC to produce these letters.
You would think if a county council is buying a property in their own area, these questions would be a given.
I have been asked to return deposit to tenant but refused to do so until there is a closing date as tenant pays a top up to me on rent each month that I am sure would stop once deposit is returned.
I wasn’t in any mad hurry however got nervous as time went on as the Council could pull out at any time as nothing was signed. This would have wasted 8 months of my time. I call the council directly and politely asked them to either find a new property for the tenant asap or instruct their solicitor to sign. The solicitor signed the Agreement for Sale within a few days so at that stage there was no pulling out for either party. The sale closed 5 or 6 weeks later.For someone like me who has just gone sale agreed. What advice would you give me in terms of speeding up the process?
Is there certain documentation etc that I should start getting ready?
That sounds correct.Hello, need advice. We are renting our house to SDCC for past 9 years. Our 10 year contract will end next June. We would like to sell property to them. For a last month I tried to contact them with all details. They answered me that they are not interested because house is owner occupied. That is not true. We live abroad. I tried to explain it to them and now they send me just form of interest to fill in and that we need to provide BER cert, valuation of property and termination notice.
BER cert I understand but we thought that they will do valuation. And we are not sure what termination notice is. Or to whom. To the council or tenants? We did not have any contact with tenants ever. Can someone please advice about correct procedure? Thank you.
Any update on your sale?Yes I have a HAP tenant and the NTQ date is February. I applied nearly two months after you so at that rate the assessment part for me won't conclude until after Xmas.
So FCC arranged a surveyor and valuer to attend the property in early January. As it stands now they are reviewing both reports and cannot give me a timeline of when they may make an offer.Any update on your sale?
Seems like we are on a similar schedule.So FCC arranged a surveyor and valuer to attend the property in early January. As it stands now they are reviewing both reports and cannot give me a timeline of when they may make an offer.
On the ten year long term rental scheme with SDCC. Finishes up 18 months time. Have had no say in what tenants have been in place past 8 years.That sounds correct.
Complete the form of Interest, Send them an up to date Ber Cert along with your independent valuation (they will do there own further down the line) and then give your tenant the 8 months notice sending the Council a copy on the same day as the tenant.
This is the start of the process and is exactly what I had to do also.
My contract was 6 years and I maintained it so different than yours. When I sold the tenant stayed in place so can’t answer question 2.On the ten year long term rental scheme with SDCC. Finishes up 18 months time. Have had no say in what tenants have been in place past 8 years.
Will be selling next year.
1. My contract is with council and the fact that I have never known tenants do I give notice to the council and when?
2. I think I will sell privately after reading above posts. Property supposed to be returned back in condition it was initally presented in.
How good are councils in returning propery back ie what condition?
Iay have to do this with SDCC, nearly eight months and it feels like I've wasted my time. Sale agreed since July.I wasn’t in any mad hurry however got nervous as time went on as the Council could pull out at any time as nothing was signed. This would have wasted 8 months of my time. I call the council directly and politely asked them to either find a new property for the tenant asap or instruct their solicitor to sign. The solicitor signed the Agreement for Sale within a few days so at that stage there was no pulling out for either party. The sale closed 5 or 6 weeks later.