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Eight out of 10 estate agents say house prices will rise this year, survey finds

The vast majority of estate agents expect property prices to increase this year – but they also believe prices will begin to level off soon.

About eight out of 10 estate agents who are members of the Society of ­Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) expect prices to increase by an average of 6pc this year.

This is up on the 4.5pc increase which SCSI agents forecast for the market last summer.

And the society said affordability is becoming a big issue, with the pace of property-price growth now higher than income growth in several regions.

This is especially the case in Dublin’s commuter counties, creating pressures for prospective buyers, SCSI vice-president Gerard O’Toole said.

Read the full details in the Irish Independent

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk, Cavan and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.

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Relief for mortgage holders as ECB set to deliver fourth rate cut today – with more on the way

The European Central Bank (ECB) is due to deliver its fourth interest rate cut today in a move that is expected to boost the mortgage market.

A reduction of 0.25 percentage points is expected, and there may be another four rate cuts next year.

That would put extra pressure on ­lenders here to reduce new fixed and variable rates, and it would benefit tracker customers.

Mortgage rates here continue to fall, according to the latest data from the Central Bank.

This week’s ECB rate cut will be the fourth ­reduction since it increased rates 10 times up to September last year.

Up to a few days ago, there had been hopes of a 0.5 percentage point rate cut, but that is now off the table.

Read the full details in Irish Independent

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.

 

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Fears property market is overheating after prices jump by 10pc in 12 months

oncern has been raised that the property market is overheating after prices surged again in August.

They were up by 10pc, the first time in two years that increases were in double digits.

Prices have risen now for 12 months in a row.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is poised today to deliver its third rate cut this year.

Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show prices increased by 10.1pc in the year to August.

Experts said it was the highest rate of annual increase since September 2022.

Read the full details in the Irish Independent

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.

 

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Finance Minister Jack Chambers is urged to introduce rules to manage vulture funds

Finance Minister Jack Chambers has been called on to introduce rules to stop vulture funds acting in what has been described as an unfair manner with mortgage holders who are trapped with them.

Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy said people whose loans were sold to vulture funds, and who cannot move lender due to having missed payments in the past, have been “thrown to wolves”.

He claimed funds won’t offer proper write-downs and instead are only offering token write-offs of debt for those unable to meet their repayments.

Close to 60,000 people are mortgage ‘prisoners’ of the vultures, unable to move to other lenders as they may have been in arrears in the past.

Read the full details in the Irish Independent

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.

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Construction activity falls for fifth month in a row

Construction activity fell in November, new data from BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland has found.

The fall in its Construction Total Activity Index is the fifth successive monthly drop.

The organisation says respondents blamed a slowdown in the economy, the completion of projects and delays in decision making at clients.

Activity slipped in all three categories it measures, with housing recording the largest fall since April.

“November saw sharp contractions in both commercial and residential activity,” said John McCartney, Director & Head of Research at BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland.

Read the full details in the RTE News

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.

 

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Buyers need to earn at least €128,000 to afford a new-build home in Dublin

he cost of building a typical family home has shot up in the last three years.

It now costs so much to build a standard three-bed semi-detached house in the Dublin region that buyers need a combined salary of at least €128,000 to afford it.

Surveyors have calculated that it costs €461,000 to deliver a three-bed semi in Dublin. This is up by €90,000 in the last three years, according to new research from the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI).

It means the cost of construction has soared by 24pc.

The research shows construction inflation is biting hard for builders, due to higher material costs, rising energy prices and fuel costs.

The report, “The Real Costs of New Housing Delivery”, puts the cost of building a similar house nationally at €397,000.

Read the full details in the Irish Independent

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.

 

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Tens of thousands face mortgage crunch as Central Bank warns hikes have yet to pass fully to households

​Tens of thousands of homeowners who have been shielded to date from surging interest rates are at risk of being hammered as their debt is repriced next year, even as financial markets bet the ECB hikes will start to reverse.

The Central Bank warned yesterday that the full hit of higher borrowing costs has not yet been felt, including the 40pc to 50pc of mortgage-holders who have not seen their monthly repayments rise even though the European Central Bank has hiked rates 10 times in 16 months to 4.5pc.

Read the full details in the Irish Independent.

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.

 

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Householders urged to take in renters as 21pc of homes have at least two spare bedrooms

New data collected during Census 2022 shows that 21pc of Irish households have two or more spare rooms in their homes, prompting calls for homeowners to consider renting a room.

The census data show for the first time the number of homes with surplus accommodation. Some 389,000 households had two or more bedrooms, which adds up to 778,000 unoccupied bedrooms.

There were 110,000 homes in Ireland with three bedrooms that nobody slept in on census night, accounting for 6pc of all households in Ireland with three rooms unoccupied, or about 330,000 unoccupied bedrooms.

It comes as the latest report from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) reveals that the average rent for new tenancies in Dublin has reached a record of €2,102 per month.

Read the full details in the Irish Independent.

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.

 

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Dublin house prices fall for sixth month in a row but nationally up 3.6pc on last year

Property prices in Dublin fell for a sixth consecutive month in April.

Prices nationally were stagnant, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The slowdown in the property market was also reflected in a fall in the number of mortgage approvals in the same month.

Successive mortgage rate rises across all the lenders are making it more expensive for buyers.

Read the full details in the Irish Independent.

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.

 

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First-time buyers pushed to limit as runaway house prices burden them with bigger loans

Mortgage drawdowns hit a 14-year high at the end of 2022, but first-time buyers are approaching their limits as prices rise faster than they can cobble together cash.

New data from the Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland (BPFI) shows the mortgage market grew strongly in the second half of 2022, with the number of loans taken out rising by 24pc to nearly 31,000 in the year – the most since 2008.

Much of that increase was due to the massive growth of the switcher market, with borrowers racing to lock in cheap interest rates as the European Central Bank (ECB) embarked on the steepest rate hikes in its history. However first-time buyers (FTB) still make up the bulk of mortgage customers, although evidence is emerging that runaway house prices are pushing them to the edge of their financial capacity.

Read the full details in the Irish Independent.

If it’s a Structural Survey Report (Building Survey Report, House Survey Report, Home Survey  Report, Property Survey Report, Condition Survey, Commercial Survey or Land Survey, ABL Surveyors are a firm of Chartered Building Surveyors with vast experience who will provide a professional, cost effective and efficient service to all our clients. Each inspection is carried out by a Chartered Building Surveyor (Building Surveyor, Home Surveyor, House Surveyor, Property Surveyor, or Land Surveyor) who has vast experience in their relevant field of Surveying.

We have offices in Navan, Dundalk and Dublin and also cover the surrounding counties and will travel nationwide if required.

ABL Surveyors are a member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and holds full professional indemnity insurance cover.

In the event that you require any of these services, ABL Surveyors are the right choice for you so please contact us for a quote.