Sold a house this year to first time buyers. It is not listed on the register and i'm guessing that it is because they were exempt from stamp duty.
How then will the register be of use to first time buyers if the properties they are likely to purchase don't get listed?
We bought last year and my elderly parents sold (and bought in 2010/11) but none of these transactions are showing up.
There are two different sets of solicitors involved and three different properties.
Should we be worried that money "is just resting [in the solicitors] accounts?
As the register is based on stamp duty, and if my property wasn't there, and on the basis that I paid the the stamp duty due over to my solicitor well before we closed the purchase, I'd be making a polite query to my solicitor in the morning as to when they forwarded it on to Revenue!
House number 55 in Anytown estate goes on sale for €200,000. House number 56 is going to market but has a huge extension that includes a living area and a bedroom upstairs and also a conservatory because of renovations.
We still can't really compare like with like.
Marion