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Renovation in Dublin
In 2025, 88% of the planning permissions granted for homes were for extensions, alterations or conversions of existing ones.
- Work on existing homes, 2025
- 88%
Planning permissions for homes in Dublin, 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 | 566 | 2,502 | 1,782 | 4,850 |
| 2024 | 581 | 2,287 | 1,344 | 4,212 |
| 2023 | 578 | 2,022 | 1,359 | 3,959 |
| 2022 | 475 | 2,289 | 1,403 | 4,167 |
| 2021 | 590 | 2,742 | 1,871 | 5,203 |
| 2020 | 637 | 1,863 | 1,213 | 3,713 |
| 2019 | 759 | 2,154 | 1,397 | 4,310 |
| 2018 | 775 | 2,238 | 1,061 | 4,074 |
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 €514,680 and €698,158 by August 2027.
- Expected, August 2027
- €606,419
- Chance of a rise
- 55%
Figures for Ireland: Dublin has no reliable figures of its own.
At the average sale price, a home costs €597,548. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €2,400 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
- 28%
- Payment, one income
- 56%
Renting the average home costs less each month than owning it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at the average sale price; rent is the average rent of the tenancies registered with the RTB in the year. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.
- Rent per month
- €2,159
- Owning per month
- €2,298
29.4% fewer homes were granted planning permission in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Permitted, 12 months
- 10,030
- Per 1,000 residents
- 6.3
Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more once since 2005. That fall began in February 2007.
- Deepest fall
- −59.6%
- Recovery from the low
- 149 months
5.9% of the 565,321 homes counted in the 2022 census were unoccupied: vacant, or holiday homes.
- Empty, 2022 census
- 5.9%
- Empty homes
- 33,414
Public bodies signed €162.9M of housing works here in 2025, and €1.4B since 2017.
- Signed in 2025
- €162.9M
- Per resident, 2025
- €104