FALL IN SUPPLY PUSHES HOME PRICES UP 5% IN THIRD QUARTER

Dear Reader, 

As our valued customer, we would like to give you the latest update from Daft.ie House Price Report , which shows average listed price of housing rose by 4.8% between June and September. The jump offsets falls earlier in the year and means that the average sale price nationwide in the third quarter of 2020 was €263,750, up 2.7% on the same period in 2019 and 60% higher than its lowest point in early 2013.

The report is also stating that an average list price in Dublin City rose by 2.2% and is now €380,731. 

According to Ronan Lyons, Assistant Professor in Economics Trinity College Dublin, the ultimate reason prices are rising again is that there are simply not enough homes in the country, given the population and its demographics. Supply on the market on October 1st was the lowest in over 14 years – since September 2006, with the total number of properties available to buy was less than 17,700. This highlights the underlying issue affecting the Irish housing system – a prolonged and worsening scarcity.

The significant fall in completion of new homes to be registered in 2020 may prove a temporary blip. Nonetheless, the level of new home construction even in 2019 was barely half of underlying need. During the first half of 2020, there were just over 3,000 transactions involving newly-built homes in Dublin, a fall of 27% compared to the same six-month period in 2019. The typical price for a newly-built home sold in the first half of 2020 was €351,000, up 5% from €335,000 in early 2019. Transactions of new homes in Dublin’s four commuter counties nearly halved between 2019H1 and 2020H1 - meaning their share of the total number of transactions involving new homes fell from almost one third to less than one quarter.

There were just over 4,000 properties on the market in Dublin on October 1, down from almost 5,500 on the same date a year ago.

Average asking prices across North Dublin City is €350,499 and Dublin 15 are as follow: 

1 bed apartment €176,000  

2 bed terraced €224,000

3 bed semi-detached €310,000

4 bed bungalow €513,000

5 bed detached €603,000

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The McPeake Team...
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