Corporation Estate

Hi

Hope someone can hep me with this issue.
Two years ago I bought a house ( newly built) in cork city , before buying I asked the selling agent if all the estate would be private or if the corporation would buy any for social housing, he told me there would no way that would happen, well two years on not only has it happened it has happened on a large scale the corporation has bought half the estate ( about 60 houses ) and are now beginning to give out the keys to people some of whom are very well known through cork for their less then social skills. Some of these people have been evicted from some of the roughest area's in Cork .
The point is that now some of my neighbours have contacted estate agents/valuers who now say because of the amount of social housing in our estate the value of our houses have decreased ( beyond what they are falling anyway)
Do I have any comeback or rights with the selling agent or corporation? My dream home that took my 5 years to save a deposit for is now a nightmare

Would appreciate any feedback
Thanks
T

unlikely unless you have something in writing, which would probably be discriminatory if you did.

It's going very difficult for you to do anything here.
It's true that anything that the selling agent become a condition of sale.
But can you prove this in Court, have you anything in writing?

I suppose maybe look if Cork Corporation have a development plan or some similar plan. Maybe they breached it, but even then I don't think there is much you could do?

It's still your "dream house" and your house hasn't changed. You can't realy stop what happened in any area, unless the area is way outside the Councils budget or area.

toni_mrphy said:

before buying I asked the selling agent if all the estate would be private or if the corporation would buy any for social housing, he told me there would no way that would happen, well two years on...

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He could have said what he liked but you should not have taken any salesman at his word - it was not binding then or now.

the problem it that with prices falling more and more estates are probably now in budget for them...maybe 2 years ago they wouldn't have been, hence the EA's comment.

This topic was recently discussed at length on Cork local radio by Neil Prenderville - the estate in question at that time was in the Shanakiel area of Cork. Many homeowners rang the station furious about their new neighbors. The outcome was that while sympathies lay with those who purchased, there was no comeback on sales agents or the Corporation.

rmelly said:

the problem it that with prices falling more and more estates are probably now in budget for them...maybe 2 years ago they wouldn't have been, hence the EA's comment.

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Not everyone would see this as a problem.

Complainer said:

Not everyone would see this as a problem.

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thanks for pointing that out complainer.

Our Estate was finished last year . There was to be no social housing (the developer "bought" out of his obligation)

Three houses were left unsold and he could not sell them, anyway, a couple of weeks ago three sets of people moved in to the different houses and it has since come out that the Developer sold the houses to the Council.

My neighbour actually has it in writing as part of his contract that there was to be no social/council houses, etc as he had a bad experience where he previously was. Another poster has said this could be deemed discriminatory. I wonder is it? Developer must have been confident at the time that he would not have needed to ever have social housing or whatever, so let the Solicitor include the clause.

However, nobody is really bothered, even my neighbour, as they all seem like lovely people. Also, it is three houses out of about 60. I would however, be concerned if I was the OP in Cork. That is tough going and I would not be happy either.