Apartment owners group welcomes appointment to Working Group on Defective Housing
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An organisation representing owners of apartments and houses in managed estates where an owners management company (OMC) is in place has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Housing that former chief executive of Donegal County Council, Seamus Neely, has been appointed as chair of the newly established Independent Working Group on Defective Housing.
A spokesperson for The Apartment Owners’ Network (AON), Des McCabe, said the establishment of the Working Group is a very welcome development and a necessary first step in the resolution of an issue that is threatening to cripple the finances of many apartment owners and owners’ management companies throughout the country.
Estate agents must have gone in to last weekend with a spring in their step. On Friday, January 8, they were told they could continue to show houses to potential buyers during the level five lockdown