Mid-East · report
Renovation in Mid-East
In 2025, 63% of the planning permissions granted for homes were for extensions, alterations or conversions of existing ones.
- Work on existing homes, 2025
- 63%
Planning permissions for homes in Mid-East, 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 | 847 | 959 | 512 | 2,318 |
| 2024 | 864 | 878 | 379 | 2,121 |
| 2023 | 820 | 790 | 337 | 1,947 |
| 2022 | 1,113 | 932 | 382 | 2,427 |
| 2021 | 1,484 | 1,097 | 509 | 3,090 |
| 2020 | 1,239 | 768 | 391 | 2,398 |
| 2019 | 1,057 | 808 | 368 | 2,233 |
| 2018 | 1,070 | 846 | 265 | 2,181 |
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 €469,550 and €571,073 by August 2027.
- Expected, August 2027
- €520,311
- Chance of a rise
- 90%
Figures for Ireland: Mid-East has no reliable figures of its own.
At the average sale price, a home costs €469,319. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €1,885 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
- 22%
- Payment, one income
- 44%
0.7% fewer homes were granted planning permission in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Permitted, 12 months
- 6,463
- Per 1,000 residents
- 8.2
Sale prices have fallen by 3% or more once since 2010. That fall began in January 2010.
- Deepest fall
- −37.2%
- Recovery from the low
- 57 months
6.4% of the 282,227 homes counted in the 2022 census were unoccupied: vacant, or holiday homes.
- Empty, 2022 census
- 6.4%
- Empty homes
- 18,160
Public bodies signed €10.1M of housing works here in 2025, and €519M since 2017.
- Signed in 2025
- €10.1M
- Per resident, 2025
- €13