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Selling your home

Access a free guide to the process of selling your home, and avoiding common delays.

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Speed up your Property Sale

This guide is designed to help you identify, and hopefully avoid, potential delays in selling your property. For most residential property sales, we estimate the average timeframe is about four to five months. However, for some property sales there can be delays and for a few, those delays can be significant. Download the PDF guide or browse through individual sections below.

About selling a property

Selling or buying a property is not always straightforward or quick. For most people it is the biggest purchase they will ever make, and the process is designed to protect them and their money.  Over the years, other protections have been built into the process for selling property including measures to prevent money laundering and a requirement to collect outstanding taxes on behalf of the Revenue Commissioners.

What you need to do

See the steps that you need to take for a smooth sale process.

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