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There has been some encouraging news on the national housing front in recent weeks. New home commencements rose sharply in January, increasing by 73 per cent to just over 2,000 units. On paper, this looks like the kind of momentum the housing market has been waiting for, but it remains to be seen if this impetus can be sustained.

Labour’s City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis in Galway is calling on Government to publish the Housing Commission Report, saying that we need to see much more urgent action on housing.

Homeless charity Galway Simon Community has highlighted the challenges, families in Emergency Accommodation are facing as the usual back to school rush begins this week.

Commenting on the recent CSO Residential Property Price Index for April, IPAV, the Institute of Professional Auctioneers & Valuers, said the increase shown in today’s figures is unsurprising, given what agents are reporting, with prices stronger outside of Dublin in the Midlands, Mid-East and South-West, areas where prices have been much lower than in the Greater Dublin area.

Commenting on the most recent CSO Residential Property Price Index, IPAV, the Institute of Professional Auctioneers & Valuers, said while overall prices are levelling off, as would be expected, particularly with rapidly rising interest rates, there are many areas of the country where prices differ from the overall trend and are below where they were in 2006.

There has been a 2.44 percent overall increase in home prices in the latter half of last year by comparison with a 6.35 percent figure for the previous six months, according to IPAV’s residential property price barometer published recently.

Commenting on the most recent CSO Residential Property Price Index for April, IPAV, the Institute of Professional Auctioneers & Valuers, said the highest increases are now happening outside of Dublin, with three factors at play, the expensive nature of the Dublin market which has resulted in the elongation of the commuter belt; new working norms which are making areas such as the South-East particularly attractive and the sterling- Brexit factor which is seeing continuing high increases in the Border region, 22.1 percent in the year to April.

The more than 400,000 people living in the private rental sector in the State will “remain voiceless”, as no renters’ rights activists have been included on the new Housing Commission.

Commenting on the most recent daft.ie House Price Report for Q2 2021 IPAV, the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers, said the increase in listed prices captures is echoed in actual sales prices by auctioneers around the country.

Commenting on the most recent CSO Residential Property Price Index for March IPAV, the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers, said the increase in prices and volume was “significant”.