Buyers left in lurch after ‘sale-agreed’ homes sold to others

One 25-year-old new mother and her partner went ‘sale agreed’ on a house in Dublin in December 2022 with the estate agent, whose firm has offices dotted around the city.

A number of house buyers in Dublin saw their dreams of home-ownership evaporate after discovering that the property in question had either already been sold or had been promised to somebody else.

The Irish Examiner has spoken to several housebuyers, all of whom dealt with the same West Dublin estate agent, and who were all subjects of a lengthy sales process after going ‘sale agreed’, before discovering that the property had either been sold or promised to another party.