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| Measure | Belfast |
|---|---|
| Price per m² | — |
| Change in a year | — |
| Change in five years | — |
| Affordability | |
| Payment, two incomes | 14% |
| Payment, one income | 28% |
| Buy or rent | |
| Rent per month | €1,406 |
| Owning per month | €1,286 |
| New homes | |
| Started, 12 months | 629 |
| Per 1,000 residents | 1.8 |
| Foreign buyers | |
| Bought by buyers abroad, 12 months | 1.8% |
| Past cycles | |
| Deepest fall | −58.9% |
| Recovery from the low | Not yet |
| People and new homes | |
| Homes finished, 2025 | 553 |
| Population change, 2025 | −649 |
| Empty homes | |
| Empty, 2021 census | 6.8% |
| Empty homes | 10,946 |
Each place's own figures where it has them; a dash means there is none. Prices are asking prices where a place has them, and bank valuations otherwise.
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Affordability
Belfast
Figures for Northern Ireland: Belfast has no reliable figures of its own.
At the average sale price, a home costs €184,768. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €852 a month. The UK sets no cap on the payment; no more than 15% of new mortgages may lend over 4.5 times income.
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Buy or rent
Belfast
Figures for United Kingdom: Belfast has no reliable figures of its own.
Owning the average home costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is the average of all private tenancies. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.
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New homes
Belfast
9.6% fewer homes were started in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
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Foreign buyers
Belfast
Figures for United Kingdom: Belfast has no reliable figures of its own.
Buyers living abroad bought 1.8% of the homes sold here in the four quarters to Q1 2025.
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Past cycles
Belfast
Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more once since 2005. That fall began in Q3 2007.
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People and new homes
Belfast
In 2025 the population fell by 649 while 553 homes were finished.
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Empty homes
Belfast
6.8% of the 160,154 homes counted in the 2021 census had nobody usually living in them.
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