Conall MacCoille
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222 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jun
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So look, it's a difficult market, but at least the kind of pace of price increases is slowing.
Well, in that particular instance, yes.
And I think it does reflect home buyers competing against each other, bidding up the price.
But I think we do have an issue in the Irish housing market, which is that asking prices have not been set at a realistic level.
If you look at the UK, typically the asking price is set and you see a small discount in good times and bad when the housing market in the UK is hot or cold.
And the UK housing market has got substantially more transactions amongst existing homeowners.
Chains are a feature of the UK housing market.
It clearly seems to be a less fraught, traumatic process for people in the UK to move home.
What we really see in the Irish market is that first time buyers are very buoyant.
Clearly they're very keen to get on the ladder.
But people who have homes are very, very reluctant to move.
That's interesting.
Why is that?
Well, I think if you look at the housing market, it's clearly not acting as well as it might do.
Part of that is maybe the conveyancing process.
Part of that is the lack of chains.
And also part of it is that we see these asking prices which aren't representative of the final price.
You know, I think when a fifth of transactions are going 20% above the original asking price, you know, I think people can do better.
And, you know, that suggests that asking prices aren't in many cases representative of the true market price.
That's clearly not desirable.
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