February 2017 - MyHome.ie Advice & Blog

Interest rate rises could be on the horizon

Blog, General, Home, Market News, Mortgages & Money, Property News

Is the end of low interest rates near? It’s not far off if today’s newspapers are to be believed. According to the reports the days of 0% ECB rates is set to end in the not-too-distant future, which will lead to an increase in mortgage…

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General

Property transactions fall in 2016 but values rise

Blog, General, Home, Industry News, Market News, Mortgages & Money, Promoted, Property News, The First Time Buyer, The Investor, The Seller

The level of property transactions across the country fell by 3.5% in 2016 to 47,175 according to an analysis of the Property Price Register carried out by MyHome.ie. However while the level of transactions may have fallen, the total value of property transactions actually increased…

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Buy & Sell

How to set up Property Alerts on MyHome.ie

Advice, Blog, Buy & Sell, Buying, General, Home, Landlords, Practical Advice, Rentals, Renters, Students

Nowadays it’s important to keep up with what’s happening in the world. Being one of the first to know something is important to people. While often that can be down to people just wanting to be ‘in the know’, when it comes to property it…

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Building

Residential development land prices up 14% last year, according to SCSI

Blog, Building, General, Home, Industry News, Land, Market News, Property News

The price of residential development land in Dublin rose by 14% last year, according to the latest figures from the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland. The figures were compiled following a survey of 380 surveyors and estate agents and research commissioned by SCSI. The surveyors'…

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Property Picks

Silver Linings at Silverbanks

Blog, Property News, Property Picks, The First Time Buyer

Savills New Homes continue their busy start to 2017 with the launch of Silverbanks, Baldoyle this weekend where show-houses will be open from 1pm – 3pm on both Saturday and Sunday. Silverbanks is a coastal development including a variety of property types from 1, 2…

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General

KBC Bank Ireland to make an additional €100 million available for mortgages in 2017

Blog, General, Home, Market News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, The First Time Buyer

KBC Bank Ireland are set to make an additional €100 million available for new mortgages this year. The bank’s chief executive Wim Verbraeken confirmed the news to ‘Inside Business’, a podcast from The Irish Times. If the plans go about this would bring KBC Bank…

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Industry News

Facebook Live broadcast opens Sherry FitzGerald’s Buyer Information Evening to a wide audience

Blog, Industry News, Property News, The First Time Buyer

Sherry FitzGerald hosted a series of Buyer Information Evenings across their Dublin Residential network last Tuesday evening. This informative evening, which saw over 150 people attend across all events as well as a Facebook Live reach of 11,000, showed how to make the buying process…

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Building

Another good month of growth for the construction industry

Blog, Building, General, Home, Property News

Ulster Bank's construction industry monthly monitor pointed to another month of good growth in January on the back of new orders. The Ulster Bank Construction PMI - a seasonally adjusted index designed to track changes in total construction activity - posted a reading of 55.7 in…

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Is there too much reliance on the bank of mum and dad when it comes to property?

General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News, The First Time Buyer

Where would we be without our parents? At a basic level not alive, that’s for sure, but also probably not homeowners either if current trends are anything to go by. According to new research from the Central Bank released earlier this week, first-time buyers are…

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