Hello,
Thinking about selling up and moving to the UK.
I've had a bit of a windfall that will fund the move. it will be paid in GBP probably by cheque from a solicitors, I don't really want to be changing the pounds to euro then back again if I can help it, although I will probably need to change some to help with the move.
What I'd like to be able to do would be, pay the proceeds from the sale of my house in to my AIB account then, when I want to change that to GBP, change it via a 3rd party fx broker.
Is there anyway I could have a UK account set up over there before the move ? Would I be able to keep my AIB personal until the funds were transferred?
I understand I could set up a GBP account with AIB but from reading this (*below) payments in/out are resrticted and, technically after the sale I wouldn't be resident in the republic as I would vacate the house a day or 2 before the sale finalises, for the shift over to the UK
*Incoming and Outgoing International payments are not supported, only sterling payments within the UK (UK Interbank Payments) are supported
*Personal customers have no online access to these accounts
Any advice would be well received....Cheers
Thinking about selling up and moving to the UK.
I've had a bit of a windfall that will fund the move. it will be paid in GBP probably by cheque from a solicitors, I don't really want to be changing the pounds to euro then back again if I can help it, although I will probably need to change some to help with the move.
What I'd like to be able to do would be, pay the proceeds from the sale of my house in to my AIB account then, when I want to change that to GBP, change it via a 3rd party fx broker.
Is there anyway I could have a UK account set up over there before the move ? Would I be able to keep my AIB personal until the funds were transferred?
I understand I could set up a GBP account with AIB but from reading this (*below) payments in/out are resrticted and, technically after the sale I wouldn't be resident in the republic as I would vacate the house a day or 2 before the sale finalises, for the shift over to the UK
*Incoming and Outgoing International payments are not supported, only sterling payments within the UK (UK Interbank Payments) are supported
*Personal customers have no online access to these accounts
Any advice would be well received....Cheers