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After sale agreed, you pay a booking deposit, your solicitor takes over, and the property moves through survey, valuation and contract signing before it’s actually sold. None of that is legally binding until contracts are signed. Deals quietly fall apart in that gap, and almost everything written about it is

Selling a house after divorce is possible in Ireland, but the Family Home Protection Act 1976 requires the other spouse’s prior written consent, whoever’s name is on the deeds. Consent settles only the first of several decisions. The harder ones come next: who gets to live in the house until

Buying a house at auction in Ireland creates a binding contract the moment the hammer falls, with a deposit of usually 10% due that day and completion typically three to four weeks later. A buyer cannot make the purchase conditional on a mortgage, a survey or a solicitor’s review, so

Selling an inherited house in Ireland can start before probate finishes, but the sale cannot close until the executor holds the grant of probate. A second figure also shapes the sale: what the house was worth on the day the person died. Revenue measures any gain against it. Budget 2027

A house viewing in Ireland is a 20 to 30 minute walkthrough, usually led by the agent, where you inspect the property and decide whether it earns an offer. That is what happens at a house viewing on paper. In practice, it is easy to spend those minutes admiring the

The minimum deposit needed to buy a house in Ireland is 10% of the purchase price for a first-time buyer or someone moving home, under the Central Bank’s mortgage measures. The CSO puts the median Kildare home at €450,000, so the minimum deposit on it is €45,000. That’s the figure