Ciarán Hancock

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

And they might nudge up the price of a new home as a result because they they recognize that buyers potentially have an extra thirty grand.

Uh Marian, Cherry Fitz sells a lot of new homes.

How many ho uh new homes uh have you sold so far this year?

About two thousand

Right.

And presumably a fair portion of those people will be availing of help to buy?

research uh to to that effect.

There are a lot of people who have available it uh could have bought a house without it.

Yeah.

I don't think the Department of Finance is in favor of uh these incentives either.

But, you know, maybe that's to be uh maybe that's to be expected.

It's going to their job, I suppose, in some respects.

But um the shared equity scheme as well, I mean, you know, if you're availing of that, you really need prices to keep going up, don't you?

Uh if you if you're planning to move out of that house at some point, you're gonna have to repay the the equity bit that the government holds and you really need prices to

well spent.

So how much has been wasted in your view?

been wasted?

How do you parcel off, let's say the border areas, the the counties that I mentioned uh earlier?

How do you sort of uh design something, a scheme or a tax measure or a break or whatever you want to call it that

But if if the demand is there in those counties for new housing and it's not being delivered at the moment

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