È improbabile che le coppie che guadagnano complessivamente 113.000 euro possano permettersi una casa di famiglia nella zona dei pendolari di Dublino
https://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-commuter-belt-house-prices-7115186-Jul2026/
di JackmanH420
È improbabile che le coppie che guadagnano complessivamente 113.000 euro possano permettersi una casa di famiglia nella zona dei pendolari di Dublino
https://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-commuter-belt-house-prices-7115186-Jul2026/
di JackmanH420
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> The report said even if a couple on said earnings have a 10% deposit and avail of the first-time buyers scheme Help to Buy, they would face funding shortfalls if they were looking to purchase in Kildare, Wicklow, or Meath.
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> SCSI case studies indicate prospective buyers in Kildare would face a shortfall of almost €25,000, in Wicklow it would be €20,500 while in Meath it would be €11,500.
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> This hypothetical couple, the income of which is modelled on a nurse and garda, would be able to purchase in Cork.
Sure what would you need nurses or guards in the capital for anyway?
Will we ever see a regional ‘living wage’ introduced for those living in high cost localities like Dublin, similar to what is done for areas around London?
We do not have a functioning country
I remember when the news was about couples with combined €85k
The gap just widens ever year, if inflation is 5% in a year, really good jobs might give a 3% bump, while the rest get nothing. People are on €40k a year for like 10 years even though the real cost has gone up and up
Oh, thats a lovely bit of misery porn for after lunch
And paying the higher rate of tax on just above 40k. Obscene
That’s just buying the house too, never mind the cost of maintaining and running it. We’re being priced out of our own country & successive governments have stood by and not only allowed this to happen, they’ve encouraged it.
When will people realise this is a deliberate feature ….not a bug
There the heading:
>Couples earning a combined €113k unlikely to afford family home in Dublin commuter belt
And then there’s what was actually said:
>A COUPLE ON a combined gross salary of €113,000 who want to buy a new, privately-built three-bedroom semi-detached home are priced out of counties in Dublin’s commuter belt
Commuter belt is massive, I could find at least 1100 minnium 3 bed properties within Dublin that couples could afford. Interested to know why a family home has to be a “3 bed semi D house”.
Edit because it was actually just Dublin, plenty more in commuter belt.
To hell or to Connaught….for the cheaper houses
Sure you all voted for this
It’s difficult to see how houses get much lower than 500k given the standards required in new builds and the amount of space they take up. The car dependency makes it even worse.
Apartments. We need people to start living in apartments.
Just another day pointing out that Ireland is teetering on the edge of of a failed state. We’ve managed to create a housing disaster so severe that an entire generation is trapped in their childhood bedrooms, or forced to move halfway around the world where a room in Bondi Beach is cheaper than a shed in Lucan.
Fucking inexcusable
> The report said even if a couple on said earnings have a 10% deposit and avail of the first-time buyers scheme Help to Buy, they would face funding shortfalls if they were looking to purchase in Kildare, Wicklow, or Meath.
– HTB scheme still has the cap of €500k. So you don’t get it at all if the house is more expensive than that is my understanding.
– 113k x 4 = 452 (capped at 450k on a 500k property)
– Already have 10% deposit of €50k
– Get an additional €30k via help to buy.
– So 450k (loan) + 50k (already saved) + 30k = €530k to buy a €500k house and pay €5k stamp duty
The maths suggests this isn’t true.
I always feel there is a cozy cartel that wants house prices to keep houses rising. Anyone who has bought in these areas the price of their investment to rise. They will resist a lot of things that would devalue their investment like allowing too much housing in the area.
It is going to result in a correction/crash in the market at some point as the prices just can’t keep rising as people can’t afford them. There isn’t even a rental market or social housing to allow people to live there.
It just feels like people are having to invest everything into housing and if they can’t they just will have to leave Ireland.
No politician will ever want to do anything to threaten house prices, I remember in the years after the 08 crash, the media was full of reports about people trapped in negative equity.
Depressing af
the commuter belt to dublin stretches as far as Belfast….
Thanks FFG!
Maybe it’s time for a gathering of every person in the country who has been taken for a ride by the government; and just have mass protests in the capital? I know it sounds like notions, but what choice do people have? Keep suffering while the government do diddly squat to find a solution to this whole crisis? Maybe the government needs a reality check.
Scary how this landscape moves.
Was super fortunate to close on a sale just over 2 years ago.
I think a few months later and we just wouldn’t have been able to afford it
We bought our house for 385k.
The next stage in the estate went for 410k. They’re still increasing in price.
Average and median are not the same thing. This is a shock article
Joke
This is nonsense. The secondhand house market exists and they can afford plenty
My wife and I really want to move back to Ireland and it feels utterly impossible without just arriving with 500k in our pockets. Been gone so long we’ve no credit history anymore and I guess we’d have to live with parents to get going even though we have money to rent, but like where.
Just at a glance on daft. There’s 515 properties available with a minimum of 2 beds in Dublin and Dublin commuter towns for under 300k. Why couldn’t they buy them? It jumps to 1495 available properties up to 400k. There’s 321 available for 300k or less asking price in Dublin alone.