New Homes: Starter schemes have a vital role to play

Estate agents broadly agree that First Time Buyers (FTBs) schemes are playing a vital role in helping to make new homes more affordable
New Homes: Starter schemes have a vital role to play

The construction sector depends on initiatives introduced under Housing for All such as Project Tosaigh and Croi Conaithe to make cost rental and apartment delivery viable.

A quiet revolution has been taking place in the Irish new homes market, with a raft of schemes to help buyers, support developers and help ensure continuity and, indeed, boost supply.

And, given how far short housing delivery was in 2024 at just over 30,000 units, vs the 40,000 figure that Government, other bodies and indeed commentors told us would be done by the end of ’24, it hardly bears thinking about how much worse it would have been without the new supports.

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