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Public housing works in Border
Public bodies signed €21.4M of housing works here in 2025, and €52.2M since 2017.
- Signed in 2025
- €21.4M
- Per resident, 2025
- €48
Public housing works signed in Border
Contract awards for housing construction published on TED by Irish public buyers, by the year published, before VAT. Complete years only; the data runs to October 21, 2026.
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| Year | Value signed |
|---|---|
| 2025 | €21,401,880 |
| 2024 | €281,565 |
| 2023 | €11,177,630 |
| 2022 | €13,036,414 |
| 2021 | €0 |
| 2020 | €0 |
| 2019 | €0 |
| 2018 | €6,280,160 |
| 2017 | €0 |
Only contracts above the EU thresholds are published on TED, so these are the larger works; smaller tenders on eTenders are not included. A contract is placed in the regions its place of performance names, split evenly; one that names only Ireland counts for Ireland alone. The value is the award's total.
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Sale prices have an 80% chance of landing between €230,905 and €321,253 by August 2027.
- Expected, August 2027
- €276,079
- Chance of a rise
- 67%
Figures for Ireland: Border has no reliable figures of its own.
At the average sale price, a home costs €260,565. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,047 a month. Ireland sets no cap on the payment; the Central Bank limits most mortgages to four times gross income for first-time buyers and 3.5 times for others.
- Payment, two incomes
- 12%
- Payment, one income
- 24%
72.3% more homes were granted planning permission in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Permitted, 12 months
- 3,103
- Per 1,000 residents
- 6.9
Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more once since 2010. That fall began in January 2010.
- Deepest fall
- −49.8%
- Recovery from the low
- 91 months
20.5% of the 198,949 homes counted in the 2022 census were unoccupied: vacant, or holiday homes.
- Empty, 2022 census
- 20.5%
- Empty homes
- 40,717
In 2025, 50% of the planning permissions granted for homes were for extensions, alterations or conversions of existing ones.
- Work on existing homes, 2025
- 50%