Category: Property Clinic
Who owns the damaged pipe on a boundary wall?

People haven’t paid their service charges
Question I have just joined the owners’ management company as a director and am shocked to find...

If the director of our Owners Management Company becomes the managing agent too, who will monitor it?
Question I live in a complex of 240 units and am very concerned about recent decisions made at our...

The lift in my apartment block has been broken for two months
Question I live in an apartment block and the lift has been out of order for about two months. When...

How do we go about selling our apartment, as we have tenants in situ?
Question Due to the increase in costs associated with being a landlord over the past couple of years,...

Am I responsible for replacing my car park fob for the apartment I’m renting as the other one broke?
Question I rent an apartment and the electronic fob for the car park stopped working recently. I phoned...

There are two restaurants below my apartment and the noise and smell is constant. What is the responsibility of Dublin City Council?
Question I am the owner-occupier of a small apartment in south Dublin. There are many problems with...

It has fallen to my daughter to collect building insurance money in the block where she owns an apartment
Question My daughter purchased an apartment in a purpose-built block containing three other apartments....

Since adding insulation to our attic there is build up of water on the underside of the roof. Does the roof need replacing?
Question Last year we added additional insulation to our attic. The benefits of this were seen immediately....

How can we improve energy efficiency and reduce our heating bills when there is no insulation in the attic?
Question We bought a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Dublin in September and the heating bills...