Thanks to Geoff for writing in….
“Hi My house selling horror story goes a little something like this: We made the decision to emmigrate to Austalia in 2005, went through all of the checks etc until eventually in September 2006 we received our visa.
We put our house in Dromore, Co Down on the market late September.
The week after we put our house on the market we received a letter from the Northern Ireland Road Service advising us that our house was encroaching on their land and there was a possibility that they might need it for a road improvement scheme (this was half our garden).
We contacted our solicitor who handled the original conveyancing in 2002 and asked them to deal with it, in the hope it could be sorted out quickly and we could proceed with the sale.
We received several offers which we would have accepted but couldn’t because the ground ownership was still under question. We decided in January to rent the house out and move to Australia in March 2007 and hope that the issue could be sorted out quickly during the next couple of months.
It wasn’t until March 2008 that we were told that we could sell the house and at that stage having contacted local estate agents were told not to try to sell it and keep renting it because of the state of the Northern Ireland housing market.
We are now in the position where I need to sell my house but can’t sell as no houses are shifting in the local area, we have put a claim in against the original solicitor, we’ve lost sales, had to take out loans and are paying out money every month to top the payments up on the house plus pay for a rental property over here.
We’re pretty much in limbo and have been since getting here 18 months ago, unable to buy and constantly thinking and stressing about the house on the other side of the world – it has cost us and is costing us a fortune. I don’t know what to do next. Thanks Geoff Stewart”
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