BEdS_83 wrote: » cache from googlehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1V66hC-8fIddTmxLTGHl_UGV0Wut-li/view?usp=sharing new pricehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1r35GTAHGzA8Y2T2MdWDtOq0Ep_TJtOea/view?usp=sharing was wondering why the new price but I guess the extra 10k would explain that..
Dylan94 wrote: » And thats for the exact same house? Not a bigger size or anything?
Akesh wrote: » Very few without help from mammy and daddy or an inheritance. For example a couple on 60k could never get a mortgage on a new build in Dublin unless it's a small apartment.
Akesh wrote: » Are low earners not entitled to their own home? Nice attitude that.
Cantstandsya wrote: » A home.
schmittel wrote: » I think you might be overestimating the intelligence of many people. There are plenty of people who think it's a great boost to help FTBs and sure this time they have the added bonus of a VAT decrease too.
awec wrote: » HTB, ever since it was invented, was always about putting money in developer's pockets. It was to drive up supply by ensuring that developers could get a reasonable return on their outlays. The whole point was to raise prices, and then give buyers the money to offset this. It was done in the manner it is for political reasons, it was better optics to give it to developers via buyers rather than give them tax breaks directly.The veneer on HTB and it's true purpose has always been remarkably thin, so it would be surprising if people are only now realising what the point of it was.
Cyrus wrote: » so there is an increased FTB grant and the decrease in vat will bring prices down yet you arent happy?
Akesh wrote: » Very few without help from mammy and daddy or an inheritance. For example a couple on 60k could never get a mortgage on a new build in Dublin unless it's a small apartment. As people have said repeatedly, the government needs to work on affordability and to do that they need to start building affordable properties. You are better off quitting your job, having 10 kids and forcing the council to look after you. It's a joke of a situation and I feel sorry for people trapped or those that will be saving 6-7 years for a deposit to buy a house so they can start a family.
Cyrus wrote: » A couple on 60k are low earners in Dublin what do you think they should be able to buy?
schmittel wrote: » I’d say it’s thinking that the votes from the property investing and home owning cohorts are more valuable than those of the homeless and renting class. Business as usual in other words. But a simple understanding of demographics will tell you that the long term mathematics of this strategy are not favorable. And ultimately we’ll end up with a SF government propped up by PBP. This is unlikely to end well.
PommieBast wrote: » How many FTB-ers (or any buyers for that matter) can actually get hold of a new-build?
Smouse156 wrote: » Actually all it does is help demand in one particular segment of the market! Builders and FTBs. It helps the rent slaves break their chains and become home owners so bad for landlords as well. Builders making more cash will help them increase output further increasing supply which depresses prices. This is the thinking of the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown second house sellers. They wondered why the prices dropped 7% in 2019 when the whole market only fell 1%. The average price was held up by the new builds coming on stream but it hurt second hand expensive houses
Cantstandsya wrote: » Or the 300k new house now costs 330k.
CorkRed93 wrote: » https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1286307924063727616 What good will come of this? Will this not just drive prices up?
TheSheriff wrote: » This is putting money in the pockets of builders. This will undoubtedly cause a creep up on new builds first; second hand homes will follow general market trends. The 300k house will now become 330k. Bigger mortgage repayments etc. Coupled with the housing ministers "go forth country councils and buy up all the houses for social housing". What is this government thinking.
schmittel wrote: » For years my property has been appreciating in a large part thanks to buyers flocking to all the new builds in the area. Long may they continue to flock at ever increasing prices. The people buying new build houses in my area are not consciously ignoring my house in favour of a new build, but it’s just so far off their radar it might as well be in a different county. However you’d need to be a serious half wit to consider that the confidence in their segment of the market does not have a positive impact on the confidence in my segment. This holds true at a local, regional and national level to some extent.