First Time Buyers lead the way as mortgage drawdowns and approvals continue to rise

As the Irish economy continues to reopen following the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic, mortgage approvals and drawdowns have remained on the rise. Recent figures from the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) has shown data on mortgage drawdowns and approvals for the second quarter of 2021.

According to the data from BPFI, some 9,625 new mortgages were drawn down in the second quarter of 2021. This represents an increase of 45.4 percent in volume when compared to the same data from the second quarter of 2020, when the pandemic was at its height. These new mortgages have a total value of €2.23 billion, representing an increase in value of 52.5 percent when compared with the same period a year ago. BPFI reports that of these new mortgages, first time buyers represent the largest segment, accounting for some 50.9 percent of all new mortgages.

The vast majority of new mortgages drawn down were to finance a purchase of a home. In the second quarter, there were 7,438 mortgage drawdowns for purchases, with a combined value totaling €1.8 billion, a 47.8 …

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How To Start a Rental Property Business?

 

Real estate is a challenging business, as obstacles can wipe out your profits if you are not careful. When planning to invest or starting a rental property business, selecting the suitable instruments for your rental property requires a lot of time, dedication, hard work, and strategic planning. This is especially true in the rental property management industry because owning a rental property is similar to walking on a road. Anything can happen; for instance, if the wind blows, you must maintain your balance and not fall apart, which will remain your responsibility throughout the journey.

Lessons on howstart a rental property business is similar to learning how to create almost any other company. As an investor, one must identify several vital elements to begin a good start.  These components and the systems and investors’ benchmarks are more successful with a proven plan for rental properties. Moreover, if you want to start a rental property business, there are several valuable lessons to learn from the experience. Meanwhile, here are some of the most critical steps to consider before planning to …

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Residential Real Estate Investment

 

It’s never a wicked knowledge to invest in real estate. It provides potential investors with various financial and personal benefits, including home appreciation, increased cash flow, and tax benefits. But knowing the type of investment deal as a beginner or an experienced investor is vital. Long-term residential rentals are one of the most common ways to profit from real estate. The choice for residential property is not an overnight decision because it requires strategies with their own set of advantages and challenges. Investors’ principal motivations and aim for choosing residential real estate investment almost always revolve around the funds, risk tolerance, and time. 

It is vital to note that people require a place to live today, which necessitates involvement in the rental market. Residential property is only used for personal purposes, and examples include apartments, apartments, and duplexes. Moreover, rents collection is not the only revenue source derived from a residential property regarding residential investment. Auxiliary property investments and real estate appreciation are also reliable sources of income when investing in residential property

In my opinion, if a stakeholder …

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4 Easy DIY Projects to Improve your Home

 

Without a doubt, the renovation of the entire house can add value to your home. However, this process of upgrading your home has the potential to push you into debt or use up your savings. Re-grouting, painting, or power washing your home’s exterior will not cost a lot of money, but they can increase your home’s value. With a few dollars and a DIY attitude,you have the possibility of listing your home at a much higher price whenever you are ready to sell. If you don’t want to sell, you can enjoy living in a more beautiful place. Here are 4 easy DIY interior updates to improve your home.

 

Repaint the walls

If your walls have a fading wallpaper, outdated color, dirty paint or scratches, a few cans of paint can make a very big difference. To ensure that the value of your home is maximized for sale, select a neutral color scheme that appeals to a majority of potential buyers, makes spaces look more beautiful, and unifies the whole house.

Putting up crown molding

Crown …

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Why are Property Prices on the Irish Coasts Rising?

According to research, properties along the Irish coast have increased in value since the pandemic hit demand, with sea properties outperforming pre-covid times by a large margin. The reports also show that property values are now 23 percent higher than the national average growth in the same period before the Covid-19 Pandemic, which was only 8.7 percent. These coastal zones stretch from Carlingford and Rosslare on the east coast to Renvyle and Dunfanaghy on the west coast.

According to a property report on the Daft website, it shows that the prices of coastal properties have risen since the onset of the pandemic, echoing a few anecdotes. One reason for the increase is that popular coastal properties demanded a premium over properties in other parts of the country. The report explains why the price of a home with a view of the sea is rapidly increasing, as some people are retreating from city life with remote operating standards for many after extended city shutdowns.

The website (Daft.ie) focused on some well-known coastal areas, listings related to the price register, in …

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What Brexit Means for the Housing Market.

How will Brexit affect the Ireland housing market? A question wondered by many citizens in Ireland, especially those currently active in the housing market.

Though not all bad, the housing market could be negatively impacted by the loss of international buyers.

As the nation watched as the British pound lost value by 10% with the referendum result being announced, and has dropped even more since then, housing in Ireland just got significantly more expensive for British buyers.

With current housing prices already being considered too high, for all buyers, international or not, the prospects of buying just got much more difficult for anyone newly searching.

The Irish Times reported recently that 60% of buyers of top-end homes are international, while 40% being more specifically from the UK.

By top-end homes, the Times is reporting numbers of €1 million and over homes. Meaning, the rest of the market, while without statistics from the Irish Times is also highly diluted by foreign investors.

Citizens looking to permanently move should not have much of an impact in their quest to buy as it …

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MyHome.ie Property Investor Report, 1st March 2012

We are please to bring you some interesting analysis on the residential investment property market in 2012. A big thanks in advance to MyHome.ie who made this possible by giving access to their data. You can get the report here or by clicking on the image to the right.

It was created by Karl Deeter of this firm and Frank Quinn, a lecturer in valuations at Senior College Dun Laoghaire. The valuation models used are Discounted Cashflows, the Investment Method and one developed by Karl which is an after tax comparison against bank deposit returns.

Tom Dunne of Dublin Institute of Technology Bolton Street kindly critiqued the report.

The general findings were that property is still overpriced in our main cities for investors (buyers face different costs/taxes/incentives). This over-valuation will adjust but one big inhibitor to investing in property at present is the taxation of it.

The coverage thus far (eg:

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Rent or Buy Report: 2010 Towards a modest conclusion, by Peter Stafford, Frank Quinn and Karl Deeter

The ‘Rent or Buy?’ report was featured on RTE1 ‘Drive Time with Mary Wilson‘ yesterday, it was prepared by Dr. Peter Stafford (Independent economist recently taken on by the Society of Chartered Surveyors), Karl Deeter (of Irish Mortgage Brokers) and Frank Quinn (of Senior College Dun Laoghaire). In the report we ran six different future scenarios with a view to determining whether it made better sense to rent or buy a property.

The findings are in the report, you can download it by clicking on the image to the left.

Our findings were fairly consistent, showing that in almost every future scenario that renting makes better sense from a cost perspective than buying does. The times that buying is better is in an upward only market and a flat market.

That may help to put numbers …

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Newstalk Business Breakfast with Conor Brophy, 6th July 2010

Today we were delighted to do the first of what will hopefully be a regular slot on the Business section of the Breakfast Show on Newstalk 106 with Conor Brophy. The topic today was that of Site Value Taxation (we had an article in the Sunday Times about it this week), property prices and then a mention of our Investment Property Profile which was done in association with PropertyWeek.ie and ODKM Architects in Terenure.

We looked at some properties in the Dublin market that might obtain a 7% yield, they require some work (sweat equity!) and although they all didn’t come out at 7% some were above 6%. This is helping to reinforce the believe that the market in general has not rationalised but that in particular you can find good value if you look for it.

Aidan McLoughlin of of the Independent Trustee Company was also there with …

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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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