Guides & Insights

Buying, selling and transferring property in Ireland, explained plainly — twenty guides.

The Process

How Long Does Conveyancing Take?

Honest ranges, and the four things that actually determine the answer.

The Process

What Is a Booking Deposit?

Generally refundable, binds nobody, and not what most buyers assume it is.

The Process

Gazumping & When You Are Safe

Why it is lawful in Ireland, and the exact moment it stops being possible.

The Process

What Your Solicitor Actually Does

The work you cannot see, in the weeks when nothing appears to be happening.

The Process

Choosing a Conveyancing Solicitor

Five questions worth more than a quote - starting with who you will actually speak to.

Contracts & Money

The Contract for Sale Explained

General conditions are standard. The special conditions are where the negotiation is.

Contracts & Money

Searches & What They Reveal

What is searched, against whom, and why they are updated on the day of closing.

Contracts & Money

The Closing Day Explained

What actually happens, in what order, and why keys sometimes arrive late in the day.

Contracts & Money

Buying With a Mortgage

Approval in principle is not a loan offer, and the difference can cost you a deposit.

Contracts & Money

Joint Ownership Explained

Joint tenants or tenants in common - a choice with consequences after a death.

Title & Planning

Planning Certificates & Why They Hold Things Up

The commonest delay in Irish conveyancing, and the most preventable.

Title & Planning

Buying a House With a Septic Tank

Registration, inspection, shared systems and percolation areas on a neighbour’s land.

Title & Planning

Rights of Way & Access

Forty years of use is not the same as a documented right - and lenders know it.

Title & Planning

Unregistered Title & First Registration

Proving ownership by deeds rather than a register, and what it adds to a timeline.

Title & Planning

Buying a Site to Build On

Mapping, access, services and permission - four things that must all work.

Family & Local

Transferring a House to a Family Member

Mechanically simple. Rights of residence, other children and tax are not.

Family & Local

Adding or Removing Someone From the Deeds

Two hurdles, not one: agreement or a court order, and the lender’s consent.

Family & Local

Selling a House From an Estate

The grant comes first, and the estate and the conveyancing belong together.

Family & Local

Buying a New Build

The builder’s contract, the specification, snagging and the management company.

Family & Local

What First-Time Buyers Should Know

The six things nobody tells you until you are already in the middle of it.

General information, not legal advice. This website contains general information about conveyancing and property law in Ireland. It is not legal advice and does not create a solicitor—client relationship. Every transaction turns on its own facts — the title, the planning position, the lender’s requirements and the contract — and advice on yours requires a consultation.

Nothing here is tax advice. Stamp duty, Local Property Tax, capital gains on a sale, and any gift or inheritance tax arising on a family transfer are matters for your accountant or tax adviser and for Revenue’s own guidance. This firm does not advise on tax and states no rate, threshold, relief or condition anywhere on this site. Where a scheme such as Help to Buy or the First Home Scheme is mentioned, the eligibility rules and limits are set by Revenue and the scheme administrators and change from time to time — confirm the current position directly with them.

No valuation, survey or financial advice. This firm does not value property, does not advise on price, and is not a surveyor, engineer or mortgage adviser. A solicitor’s investigation of title is not a structural survey and is not a substitute for one, and no legal work will tell you whether a property is sound or whether the price is right.

Never both sides of the same transaction. The firm acts for buyers and, in separate transactions, for sellers — but not for both parties to the same sale. Conflicts are checked before any substantive discussion, which is why the first contact should identify the property and every party involved.

No timeline is promised. Nothing on this site states or implies that a transaction will close by any particular date. Closing depends on matters outside any solicitor’s control, including the other side, the lender, the chain, and third parties such as local authorities and Tailte Éireann.

Fees. Fees and outlays are agreed in writing with the client at the outset, in accordance with the Legal Services Regulation Act. In contentious business, a solicitor may not calculate fees or other charges as a percentage or proportion of any award or settlement.