8th June 2020 The Department of Finance says most homeowners will not face any increase in their Local Property Tax...
Property – Holland Condon Solicitors Kilkenny
Benefits of switching your mortgage – do it often !!
11th February 2021 This week Dominic Coyle in Tuesday's Irish Times has some great advice on switching. He's worth...
Registry of Deeds opens – at last !!
14th August, 2020 The Property Registration Authority (PRA) says the Registry of Deeds in Henrietta Street in Dublin...
Property prices in the pandemic
17th July 2020 Residential property prices fell for the second month in a row during May, according to the latest...
Commercial evictions during Covid 19 for rent non-payment
6th May, 2020 Dublin solicitors’ firm Sherwin O’Riordan has secured a High Court injunction for a furniture business...
Farmers and Stamp Duty
12th February, 2020 Young Trained Farmer Relief and State Aid Section 81AA of the Stamp Duty Consolidation Act 1999...
Property Contracts Regime – widely welcomed
12th February, 2020 The Law Society’s Conditions of Sale 2019 for conveyancers came into effect on 1 January 2019....
Owner’s Liability to pay Commercial Rates
21 October, 2019 The Local Government Rates and Other Matters Act 2019 was enacted on 11 July 2019 to deal with...
Email signature declared legally binding
7th October, 2019 Manchester County Court has ruled that an email signature block forms part of a legally binding...
Buying Property – the importance of surveys
The Conveyancing Committee of the irish Law Society and Rory O'Donnell provided a very interesting guide to surveys...
Get money back from the tax-man : refunds of stamp duty for one-off houses
You can get a refund of stamp duty where you acquire a site and then build a home on it ! A 1-2% stamp duty tax...
Landlocked sites and land ( where no registered right of access appears ) – a possible solution
A common enough scenario that arises in purchases of property = The owners are seeking to sell a property in a rural...