Tenants renting council houses who are looking to downsize, upsize or move closer to family are using a Facebook group to swap homes. While most local authorities facilitate mutual transfers of council houses, tenants are finding it quicker to source people on social media. She recently posted in the Facebook group 'council house swap', which has 18,794 members. There are hundreds of posts from tenants looking to swap homes all over the country. No fee applies to house swapping, each tenant must agree to accept the house in its existing condition and no pre-letting repairs are carried out.

Source: Irish Independent July 02, 2020 01:36 UTC