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With just seven weeks to go until Brexit, discussions about the border are set to increase more and more over the next few weeks. The possibility of a hard border looms large as the UK plots its exit from the European Union. That will have a particular impact on the five counties – Donegal, Louth,…

The second half of the year should see a new selection of houses come on the market. Here at MyHome.ie we’ve come up 20 of the new developments in Leinster which will be launched in the months ahead. Bloomfield House, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 Type: 11 two bed apartments and 1 three bed apartment Expected: Soon…

The five most expensive places to live in Leinster have been revealed. According to the latest MyHome.ie Property Report, in association with Davy, Dublin is unsurprisingly the most expensive place to reside in the country. In Leinster it is followed by the commuter counties of Wicklow, Kildare, Meath and Louth when it comes to the…

The rise in monthly rents in Dublin has slowed but a wide gap remains between the cost of renting a home in the capital and the rest of the country, latest figures for the private residential property market show. Quarterly figures compiled by the ESRI, and published by the Residential Tenancies Board, also show that…

The number of residential property sales for the first half of 2016 was down 8.2 per cent compared to the same period last year. According to an analysis of the Property Price Register by MyHome.ie, there were 20,447 sales recorded between January 1st and June 30th of this year – 1,826 fewer than in the…

Anyone looking to buy a home at present will be all to aware how difficult it is. Firstly, there’s the task of finding something suitable to your needs – something that is not always easy given the fact that demand still far exceeds supply. That’s a situation unlikely to get much better in the not-too-distant…

Turnover of Irish residential property is barely 50 per cent of what is considered “normal” in a healthy housing market. According to GeoDirectory, the State’s largest property database, there were just 43,428 residential property transactions last year from a total housing stock of more than two million. This equates to a national turnover rate of…

Lotto winner Greg Smyth has sold his Co Louth home via MyHome.ie. The 31-year-old son of golfing legend Des Smyth clinched a €9.4m jackpot back in 2008. The Drogheda house has five bedrooms with two en-suites, a modern fitted kitchen and a landscaped back garden.

The number of homes being repossessed is continuing to rise with orders being granted at a rate of more than 60 per week when the courts are sitting, Courts Service figures show. Almost 1,000 repossession orders were granted in the courts in the first six months of this year, with the number granted in the…

Property transactions for the first half of the year are up by more than a third on the same period of last year. An analysis of the Property Price Register, conducted by property website MyHome.ie, shows there were 21,425 sales between January 1st and June 30th this year. That was 34.6 per cent higher than…