Thanks for the update Danidl, I'm rather out of date on the situation there it seems. I remember the overbuilding phase and also when London Irish friends were buying homes there, but hadn't seen anything about the latter stages in the media here.That actually would not be true. . We have a housing crisis , due to an inadequate house building post 2007. Prior to the crash we were overbuilding by a factor of 2. However substantial numbers of unfinished buildings, including entire estates had to be demolished. The housing shortage is acute in the general Eastern region, including Dublin,and stretching up to here. Our general requirement is about 40,000 units per annum, and we are at maybe at most 20,000. In 2007, the number peaked at 90,000.
There is a glitch in our tax code,which mitigates against an elderly person , perhaps in a care home from selling or even renting their home. I suspect that was the reason for the vacancy here.
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