Sligo Weekender: “€8.9m of home sales in May amid call for help for buyers”

01Aug

Sligo Weekender: “€8.9m of home sales in May amid call for help for buyers”

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15/07/2019

There were 71 houses and apartments sold in Sligo in May, to a total value of €8.9m, but there has been a call for the government to extend the Help to Buy Scheme to help many who cannot afford to buy.

17Jul

Irish Construction Industry Magazine: Strong Upward For Housing

by MyMortgagesUncategorisedCentral Bank, Mortgage Application, mortgage assistance, Mortgage Broker Cork, Mortgage Broker Dublin, Switcher Mortgage

The CSO Quarter 1 2019 new dwellings completion report confirms a strong upward trend across all housing construction activity data sets.

“While it is important to continue our efforts to ensure that this trend is maintained and even further improved, it is encouraging to see today’s results,” says Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy.

“In order to properly address homelessness” he continues, “affordability and the challenges in housing, we need to fix supply. These numbers show that this is happening.

15Jul

Irish Examiner: Mortgage Expert: Extend Help-To-Buy

by MyMortgagesUncategorisedbuying a home mortgage, First time buyer, First Time Home Buyer, first-time buyers, Mortgage Application, mortgage assistance, Mortgage broker, Mortgage Broker Cork, Mortgage Broker Dublin

The help-to-buy scheme should be extended “sooner rather than later” to help first-time buyers being priced out, a mortgage expert has said.

Joey Sheahan of MyMortgages.ie was speaking as a report from EY and DKM showed nearly half of all counties in the Republic are now unaffordable for first time buyers on an average income.

11Jul

Property price inflation slows to six-year low of 2.8%

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Latest official figures show the headline rate of inflation in the capital city Dublin at 0.6%

07Jun

The Irish Examiner: 20% of properties sold to big investors

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One-fifth of all property sales in the first quarter of 2019 were to large international investors and real estate investment trusts. A new report from the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) shows the extent to which investors are impacting on the private housing market in Ireland.