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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 13, 2021

QUESTION NO 12.

QUESTION: Councillor C. King

"To ask the CEO how many former Council Homes that were purchased by tenants became available for sale since 2019? With the answer in mind and given that the Council is entitled to first refusal on such Homes to be repurchased and taken into Council Housing stock for the purposes of allocating to Family's or individuals on our Housing list - How many of these Homes were purchased by SDCC for the aforementioned reasons".

REPLY:

Since 2019, the Council has received a total of 230 applications for consent to resale under the various tenant purchase schemes, broken down as follows:

Year	Consents Granted	No Consent Required	Consent Refused
2019	34	67	8
2020	16	58	0
2021	12	34	0
Totals	62	159	8

Properties sold under the Incremental Tenant Purchase Scheme 2016 require that the purchaser provide notice to the Housing Authority if they are considering re-sellingand if they re-sell their house while the incremental purchase charge is in place, they must get the written agreement from the local authority. They will also have to pay the current value of the outstanding incremental purchase charge to the local authority.  Since 2019, the Council has sold twelve properties under the Incremental Tenant Purchase Scheme 2016.  Only one potential purchaser to date has made an enquiry about the resale of the property back to the Council but did not proceed with their application.The Council does have first option to buy back the house only in those instances where the incremental purchase charge is in place under the Incremental Tenant Purchase Scheme 2016 but the vast majority of properties sold to tenants pre-dated this scheme under various previous Sales Schemes/Tenant Purchase Schemes.  Where consent to re-sale is requested and required, it is generally only granted where the subsequent purchaser is a first time buyer.