Ciarán Hancock

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · How many new homes does Ireland really need? · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

Now I know you're saying that the trend uh is is interesting and it's probably positive for anybody who wants to get in the property ladder, but nonetheless prices are still going up by four point six percent in Dublin, you know, from a high base.

So that's still it's still a substantial increase and it's ahead of the earnings of a lot of people.

The growth in earnings that people can achieve.

And there's some figures here.

Now I appreciate you you've come to the studio.

Not long after these uh figures were put out, and I know you haven't had a chance to really drill into them, but um according to revenue figures, uh there were a thousand and eighty five new dwellings sold in the month with a value of five hundred and sixteen million.

So some quick maths on that.

Um correct me if I'm wrong, that's an average price of four hundred and seventy five thousand euro.

I mean, that's a lot of money for new dwellings, you know.

It's a lot of money for new dwellings, you know.

Right.

What level of supply do we need to sort of meet demand in your view?

We definitely

north of fifty thousand units a year.

North of fifty thousand.

Right.

Okay.

We'll come on to that in a minute.

But what's what's your view of how many units we should be building each year to sort of meet demand?

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