Buying Real Estate In Ireland And Obtaining Residency

By Robert D Marshall

Agreements for the sale of land are generally carried out in a form of contract which has the approval of the Law Society of Ireland. This is a standard form document which contains many pages of printed standard conditions which have been drawn by the Conveyancing Committee of the Law Society to achieve a sense of balance between vendor and purchaser. These standard conditions may be amended by special conditions to meet the necessities of the particular case. The contract is complex because land law in Ireland is a complex subject governing the balance between the competing interests of adjoining owners and occupiers of various differing types and seeking to balance the interests of the vendor and the purchaser. In this, I do not believe it is any more complex than the land law of other western jurisdictions.