Border · report
Renovation in Border
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%
Planning permissions for homes in Border, by type of work
Planning permissions granted for homes each year: new construction, extensions, and alterations and conversions. CSO.
- Alterations and conversions
- Extensions
- New construction
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| Year | New construction | Extensions | Alterations and conversions | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,010 | 667 | 336 | 2,013 |
| 2024 | 1,016 | 647 | 238 | 1,901 |
| 2023 | 952 | 558 | 181 | 1,691 |
| 2022 | 1,177 | 547 | 154 | 1,878 |
| 2021 | 1,234 | 688 | 210 | 2,132 |
| 2020 | 762 | 464 | 171 | 1,397 |
| 2019 | 838 | 439 | 130 | 1,407 |
| 2018 | 802 | 450 | 129 | 1,381 |
The CSO counts planning permissions, not homes or finished works: one permission may be for a single extension or a whole estate. Many small works need no permission, including most extensions under 40 m² at the back of a house, so they are not counted. Ireland from 2009, regions from 2018.
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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
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