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When asked what is most appealing about the area where they sell houses, our local estate agents wax lyrical about the beauty of Galway and its hinterland, and outline many of the reasons why people are so keen to buy in this region. Galway Tourism could not put it any better.

'Housing affordability' has become the dominant topic of Irish political discourse over the last number of years. Regularly featuring in opinion polls as the most important issue facing people, our political leaders have struggled to outline a clear path to solving this housing crisis. With residential property prices having more than doubled over the last decade, we asked some of our local Galway property experts what advice they would have for the government in handling this issue.

There is almost unanimous agreement among the estate agents we spoke to on what is most important for first time buyers, and it can be summed up in two words: Finances and location.

DNG Martin O’Connor estate agents claimed a top prize at the recent DNG Nationwide Conference in The Curragh Racecourse.

The consensus among the auctioneers The Galway Advertiser spoke to over recent weeks was that 2022 was a very strong year for residential property sales, and the market would remain robust in 2023, if not quite reaching the growth levels of 2022.

Welcoming the publication of the new Government Housing plan, ‘Housing for All’, COPE Galway have described this plan as critical to the lives of many people who are experiencing the negative effects of the current housing crisis.