I am an American looking to move to Ireland. How is the best way to begin my search for a home, etc. ?

Question

I don't know anything about International travel, especially relocating to Ireland. Are there real estate agencies that do overseas real estate? Any ideas or suggestions on how to begin my "journey"?

Answer 1

You could try www.propertynews.com, may not find you a home, but certainly a good starting point for a house...

Answer 2

Google it.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

if you're moving to ireland your best bet would be to go over there stay in a hotel until u find some land then build it yourself

Answer 5

You can't really just 'move' to Ireland. Do you have EU citizenship? Do you have a rare skill or needed job? Are you personally rich? Then forget it. I'm here over a year now with my partner (Irish) and our child who is an Irish citizen and I can't get permission to work... my application for permission to stay is pending and a decision can take 2 years.

Try getting an employer (from abroad-- you cannot enter the country as a tourist and seek work. Any application for a work visa (requires employer sponsorship) must be made from your home country. Other than that-- you can come as a student and get a visa that route.

Visit first. Ireland is highly romanticized and living here isn't the same as looking at pictures of green rolling hills online or listening to rarely heard in Ireland unless your in the west trad music.

Answer 6

Google real estate in Ireland,   it is such a great place to live

Answer 7

Hi,try putting a search in yahoo.You will be amazed at what you find.Good Luck

Answer 8

Let me break it down.  http://www.entemp.ie/ This site give you infor on how to get a job in Ireland and a work permit.  You cannot just go live in Ireland from the US.

Look at eircom.net for real estate they have a good search engine that can give you a look at how real estate prices differ in ireland.

Limerick inexpensive but has a bad reputation for problems.  But I liked it.  I also like Shannon, and Sixmilebridge that are in the middle of everything.  Dublin is only 2 hours, Galway is 1 hour and Limerick is only 20 minutes.

First getting there is going to be your biggest problem do the research.

Answer 9

A really good site for real estate in Ireland is www.daft.ie. This site covers everything from your budget, whether you want to house share or not and best of all pictures of most of the properties. Most real estate agents advertise on this site. Before you leave, one thing you should know is that real estate is really expensive in Ireland. Good luck with your relocation. Also a good site for job search is www.monsterjobs.ie

Answer 10

http://compare-international-movers.com/

www.discoverireland.com

www.rightmove.co.uk/ireland

Or look on local government website

Answer 11

Get yourself some EU citizenship. Failing that, make sure you have some unusual qualifications for which it's hard to find employees. Irish employers officially have to search for suitable employees first from among the pool of Irish candidates, if they can't find a suitably qualified Irish person then they look among the EU nationals, and only if they can't find someone from an EU country do they look outside of the EU. Organising work permits is expensive and time-consuming. Also - European is not automatically EU, you need to make sure that the European country for which you wish to apply for citizenship (you can apply if you can prove you have a grandparent from such a country, I believe) is in fact a member of the EU. Check the EU website. This is if you need to work.

The best thing to do is find a job first. Unless you are already very wealthy, forget about trying to buy property in Ireland. It has become astronomical in recent years, with terrace 3-bedroom houses in Dublin within 5 miles of the city centre exceeding the €1 million mark. I'm not joking! At the moment the cheapest city property-wise is Limerick, the same houses go for about € 350 thousand - it's all about location.

There are lots of estate agents (which is what we call them) in Ireland that deal with foreigners. I think the best known is Sherry Fitzgerald, but there are many others.

So: start working on the citizenship thing if you need to work while living in Ireland. Google 'property for sale in Ireland' or something like this. If you do want to own your own house and need to work while living here, you will need to be able to prove a viable income in order to get a mortgage .... the same as everywhere else. Have all your documentation to hand when you talk to an Irish estate agent.

Answer 12

First off if you do research a real estate  in Ireland is known as an estate agency. Where is it you want to live? What do you want to do?

http://www.emigrant.ie/category.asp?iCat...

Try this website it has links to other sites too