Residential Zoned Land Tax Searches – An Ellis & Ellis Explainer
Updated: October 18, 2024 Published: April 16, 2024 What are Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) Searches? As part of the ‘Government’s Housing For All’ programme, a new annual tax called the Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT) was introduced under the Finance Act 2021, and is scheduled to come into practical effect on 1st February 2025. […]
Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) Searches – An Ellis & Ellis Explainer
Updated: October 18, 2024 Published: April 8, 2024 What are Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) Searches? At a time of ever-increasing rental costs, and as part of a governmental approach to making rented accommodation generally more affordable, Rent Pressure Zones (RPZ) were initially introduced on 24 th December 2016, and have since been extended under the […]
Register of Shipping Searches – An Ellis & Ellis Explainer
Updated: January 9, 2025 Published: March 5, 2024 What are Register of Shipping Searches? A division of the Department of Transport and operating under the Irish Maritime Administration (IMA), the Marine Survey Office (MSO) is responsible for port/ flag state (i.e. the jurisdiction under whose laws the vessel is registered or licensed) regulatory control in […]
Intellectual Property Office of Ireland (IPOI) Searches – An Ellis & Ellis Explainer
Updated: January 23, 2025 Published: March 5, 2024 Intellectual Property – a brief understanding In as much as physical objects like land, houses, vehicles, and other goods can be owned by an individual or a legal entity, it is also the case that original creative processes or innovations can be owned. Copyright aside, certain types […]
Credit Union Searches – An Ellis & Ellis Explainer
Updated: January 23, 2025 Published: March 5, 2024 What is a Credit Union search in the context of a conveyance? Credit Unions bear many similarities to Friendly Societies which are often characterised as associations of ‘mutual aid.’ Initially formed on a voluntary basis, friendly societies’ primary purpose was to ‘…safeguard members from debts arising from […]
Lost and Found: A Guide to Searching Wills and Public Probate Records When Selling a Property
Updated: April 17, 2025 Published: January 11, 2024 Whether you are an individual or a probate solicitor and you are selling the property of a deceased person, how do you find out if someone has left a will, what public records (probate) can be checked, and how might probate records impact the selling of a […]
What is a National Archives Search? – An Ellis & Ellis Explainer
Updated: January 9, 2025 Published: January 11, 2024 The National Archives – A brief synopsis Born of a merging of the State Paper Office (SPO) (Founded in 1702 and holding the records of the various Lord Lieutenants of Ireland, 1542 to 1801) and the Public Record Office of Ireland (PROI) (Founded 1867) whose duties included […]
What is an Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle (ICAV) Register Search? – An Ellis & Ellis Explainer
Updated: March 24, 2025 Published: September 7, 2023 What is an Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle (ICAV) search? In order to respond to the above premised question, we must first ask ‘What is an ICAV?’ Operating under the European Commission’s regulatory framework for managing and selling mutual funds (i.e., financial products that aggregate assets from shareholders […]
Closing Searches – An Ellis & Ellis Explainer
Updated: January 23, 2025 Published: August 11, 2023 What are Closing Searches? Typically, when a premises goes ‘Sale Agreed’, the selling and purchasing solicitors will generate a contract which commits the buyer to the purchase of the property (right or interest) as seen, yet subject to the contract’s agreed terms and conditions. Invariably, the contract […]
Beneficial Ownership Searches – An Ellis & Ellis Explainer
Updated: January 23, 2025 Published: April 28, 2023 What is a Beneficial Ownership search? Ever since European Anti-Money Laundering legislation was transposed into Irish law from 2015 onwards, it has become a requirement for companies, industrial and provident societies, and Certain Financial Vehicles (CFVs) to (a) maintain an internal register of their beneficial owners and […]