Announcement

1. Allow private Irish citizens to write off the entire cost of their investment property against income tax over a 25-year period. 2. Introduce a system similar to the American Section 1031 exchange, where a person does not have to pay capital gains tax if they sell their investment property and reinvest the funds within six months. 3. Allow private Irish citizens to write off 100% of the interest on their mortgage against income tax. 4. County Councils all over the country have huge amounts of vacant properties that could quite easily be converted into residential accommodation, so you need to force councils to sell those properties at reduced prices to individuals. (NOT CORPORATIONS). 5. Extend the living city initiative as it applies in various parts of Dublin City to every other city and town in the country. 6. Give tenants and landlords the right to appeal any adjudication by the RTB to the district court and make the adjudicators a compellable witness to explain their decision. 7. Reduce VAT on new build residential properties to 3% and reduced stamp duty on new builds to 0%. 8. Reduce the time limits for the granting of planning permissions in relation to residential properties at every single step in the process, and make councils and An Bord Pleanála stick to those limits 9. Only allow objections to planning applications for residential properties from people who are living in the immediate area and directly impacted by the planning application. 10. Introduce legislation that provides for building heights of 100m in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford.

Preparing your house for sale (LEGAL) Top 13 things you need BEFORE you put your house up for sale. Below is a list of the 13 absolutely vital things that you will need BEFORE you put your house or apartment up for sale, especially if you are going to buy another property using the proceeds of the sale.