Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 26 October 2023
190. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of residential dwellings purchased to date in 2023; and the total number of first-time buyers who have purchased residential dwellings to date in 2023, by county, in tabular form. [47128/23]
View answerData on the number of residential dwellings purchased, including by first-time buyers, are captured and published by the Central Statistics Office.
The most recent data, for the period to end-August 2023, show more than 41,700 dwellings were purchased by all buyer types between January and August this year. Some 11,000 or 26.5% of these were purchased by first-time buyers, an increase of 2% on the same period last year.
A county-by-county breakdown of purchases by households and non-households is available from the CSO at data.cso.ie/table/HPM02.
