Conall MacCoille
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222 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jun
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You can see those bids pretty quickly, so it guards against wasting your time.
Look, there's a range of issues.
There's conveyancing, there's the length of the sales process.
One of the sort of issues in the Irish housing market is the lack of chains.
So if you're in the UK, you might see four or five transactions settle on the one day.
And what that means crucially is that you don't need to sell your own home before you buy another.
And I think that's one of the really key issues, which is potentially holding back liquidity in the Irish housing market.
Now, when it comes to asking prices being set low relative to the final transaction price, that's just a practice in the industry.
I'm sure there's estate agents who feel they're doing the best for their clients.
That's the best way to achieve the best price.
I think that...
perceived advantage of setting a low price is probably illusory.
And again, if we bring in more transparency and people can see the bids, I think what they'll find is that actually, wherever you set the asking price, the market price won't be affected.
So there really isn't that much to be gained.
Yeah, time has been wasted.
I think it's probably putting people off from the market.
There's other difficulties as well.
I mean, I think when one in six, one in seven properties has been sold 20% over the original asking price, that's not a good place to be.
Any well-functioning market, as in the UK and the US, where the asking price is the asking price, that's where we want to be and hopefully we can get there.
I think there's a danger trying to be too clever about this entire process.
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