{"id":287191,"date":"2026-02-08T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287191\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:21:09","slug":"home-economics-my-father-is-using-fair-deal-if-we-rent-his-house-can-we-sell-if-he-dies-or-are-we-locked-in-for-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287191\/","title":{"rendered":"Home economics: \u2018My father is using Fair Deal. If we rent his house, can we sell if he dies or are we locked in for six years?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Our property finance expert answers your questions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Yes, my understanding \u2013 and those of experts I have asked \u2013 is that you would be locked in, as you put it, to a six-year tenancy arrangement.&quot; Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/45cb7837-f7e8-4f68-8282-ea28f2cb8ecb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;Yes, my understanding \u2013 and those of experts I have asked \u2013 is that you would be locked in, as you put it, to a six-year tenancy arrangement.&#8221; Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">My father is in a nursing home since last September under Fair Deal, although I am still awaiting the Enduring Power of Attorney to be finalised in order that I can manage his financial affairs with my two siblings. His home is now vacant and ideally we wanted to rent it out to defray the costs associated with the nursing home, but we are very concerned by the new tenancies legislation, which would compel us to do so for up to six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our property finance expert answers your questions &#8220;Yes, my understanding \u2013 and those of experts I have asked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,3362,17377],"class_list":{"0":"post-287191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-money-experts","12":"tag-sinead-ryan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}