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The elected members of Ballina Town Council will meet again before approving a new tenant purchase scheme for long standing tenants. The new scheme, which will run hand in hand with the existing scheme, will see tenants who have more than 10 years of tenancy with the local authority get up to a 45 per cent discount on purchasing their home. This new scheme will run alongside the existing scheme from 1995 which saw tenants being able to avail of up to a 30 per cent discount on purchasing their homes.

A “huge uptake” is expected for a new tenant purchase scheme which will allow people avail of a discount of up to 45 per cent on the market price of a house.

There are several different reasons why an agency is more effective than an individual when letting a property, according to Yvonne Mulllaney of Yvonne Mullaney executive sales and lettings. For a start, an agent will have several properties online at any one time, and so gets an extremely high volume of people ringing looking for a home to rent.

Long-term local authority tenants will have the opportunity to buy their home at almost half its market value with new provisions set out in Budget 2011.

Many homeowners are now opting to let rather than sell their properties due to the current conditions in the housing market, according to local auctioneer Yvonne Mullaney.

Tony Joyce of O’Donnellan & Joyce has recently brought to the market a very attractive and substantial detached house located at 121, Claremont Park, Rahoon, Galway.

Housing grants as far as the end of March 2010 have been approved in the Westport Electoral area, housing officer Martin Keating told members at a meeting on Monday.

Students coming to university in Galway must be sure of their rights and responsibilities before signing a rental agreement or verbally agreeing to rent properties.

Mayo County Council can and will terminate the contracts of landlords with whom they have entered into agreements under the Rental Accommodation Scheme, if the landlords fail to live up to their obligations to stop their tenants from engaging in antisocial behaviour.

A couple who hadn’t paid rent to Westmeath County Council in almost two years and owed over €6,000 to the authority, avoided eviction on a technicality in the District Court this week (June 16).