Irish Property Investor Report: Spring 2010

We are pleased to release our new Irish Property Investor Report for the Spring of 2010 (click on the picture to view it). The people that put it together this time were Frank Quinn (IPAV), Lecturer in Valuations at Senior College Dun Laoghaire and Irish Mortgage Brokers.

The property figures were provided by PropertyWeek.ie (who also run a non-practitioner site at MyHat.ie) and a critique of the report and methodology (which we deemed  necessary in the spirit of balance) was carried out by Iain Nash.

The news is not positive, we have determined, using our valuation methods; that property as an investment is still unattractive in the spring of 2010, in order for it to make sense prices would need to fall significantly in our major cities in the range of about 39% on average.

Having said that, this report looks at averages and it can’t …

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Residential investment property report: Q3 2009

We are pleased to bring you the winter edition of our Residential Property Investor report for 2009.

(Click on the picture to the left to download it)

This time we teamed up with our friends at propertyweek.ie and MyHat.ie as well as with Frank Quinn who is a lecturer in Property Valuations in Senior College Dun Laoghaire to bring you what we feel is a very comprehensive overview of the Irish investment property market.

We used four different methodologies to look at valuations, discounted cash-flows, the investor method of property valuations, and then two unique versions that look at the performance of a property versus bank deposits factoring taxation in both leveraged and un-leveraged examples.

We have published the analysis element of what we have done and welcome any critique readers may have, we accept that every variance and eventuality can never be fully covered, having …

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