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By the second quarter of 2010, house prices in Ireland had fallen by 35% compared with the second quarter of 2007, and the number of housing loans approved fell by 73%. [1] [2] The collapse of the property bubble was one of the major contributing factors to the post-2008 Irish banking crisis.
The residential property tax was introduced in the Finance Act 1983 [8] and was abolished on 5 April 1997. It was an annual tax, charged at the rate of 1.5% per annum on the portion of the market value of an owner-occupied house which was greater than (in 1996) £101,000, as long as the household income exceeded £30,100.
Property prices also increased in 2014, growing fastest in Dublin. This was due to a housing shortage, especially in the Dublin area. The demand for housing caused some recovery in the Irish construction and property sectors. [134] By early 2015, house price increases nationally began to outpace those in Dublin.
A number of sources, including The Economist, [65] warned of excessive Irish property values. 2004 saw the construction of 80,000 new homes, compared to the UK's 160,000 – a nation that has 15 times Ireland's population. House prices doubled between 2000 and 2006; tax incentives were a key driver of this price rise, [66] and the Fianna Fáil ...
In June 2016, the UK House Price Index (UK HPI)[1] was launched as a collaboration between the Office for National Statistics, HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland. The index is calculated using land registration data (such as HM Land Registry).
Real estate bubbles are invariably followed by severe price decreases (also known as a house price crash) that can result in many owners holding mortgages that exceed the value of their homes. [ 32 ] 11.1 million residential properties, or 23.1% of all U.S. homes, were in negative equity at December 31, 2010. [ 33 ]
The purchase price was equal to 17½ years rental. Land Law (Ireland) Act 1888 ... The decline of the Big House in Ireland. A study of Irish landed families 1860–1960.
An April 2007 survey found Northern Ireland's average house price to be one of the highest in the UK, behind London, the South East, and the South West. It also found Northern Ireland to have all of the top ten property "hot spots", with the Craigavon and Newtownards areas increasing by 55%. [15]