House prices are continuing to fall according to the latest Permanent TSB/ESRI house index.

The survey has shown prices were down by just under half a percent across the country in July.

The cost of buying a home has now fallen by 3% since the start of the year.

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Is it a Bad time for the construction industry, or a terrible time?

I believe it is about to become terrible after 10 years of construction nirvana.

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i think its great - FF's chickens coming home to roost...

Build your economy on sand - then you'll sink..

Haben't you heard the boom is getting boomier.

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It's never been a better time to buy!!! (according to every vested interest economist who have been swarming the airwaves)

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I still can't see a crash happening though.

Would hold off a few more months if I was buying though.

Mortgages are down by a quarter, house prices are down 3% in the first 7 months of the year.

The 'traditional summer lull' is over now and optimistic sellers are going to start panicking when they're houses refuse to shift without significant price or added value concessions.

It's about to get interesting

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Which is exactly what turns a fall into a crash...

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Hopefully this crash will happen in the next year then maybe my family and I can live in the city I was born and raised in! Houses in Dublin are still about 100k too expensive.

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The key is to shake the nvestors out of the market, alas, cant see how it'll happen without effecting the rest. 2 bed appts are going to suffer most...

Its not a big problem unless you are an investor, as long as you can afford the financial commitments you have tied yourself into.

First timer buyers home will get cheaper,
People, like me, who have a place but need to move to a bigger home will see the value or oour house shrink, but so too the price of the one we want to buy,

The real losers are people who bought recently who want to leave Ireland, those who have committed to buying a house but not managed to sell theirs yet, overstretched investors and maybe tenants who may see rents rise further as investors try to cover costs.

It'll only be a real (as opposed to political) crises if interest rates keep going up and people can't afford their current loans. Definitely a vicious cycle though, you'd be mad to buy at this point in time, but no buyers will only excacerbate issues... fun times indeed.

I suppose we'll have all the vested interests on the media this evening talking about soft landings, alot of people i knew bought houses for resale in the short term 2-5 years, what if prices stagnate over the next few years.
We should stop listening to auctioneers and our 'developer' FF government