Budget 2026: New measures will provide certainty for housing investors, construction body says 

Vat on sale of completed apartments to drop from 13.5% to 9% from Tuesday night and corporation tax reduction among measures to stimulate housing construction

Chief executive of the Construction Industry Federation Andrew Brownlee said the Vat reductions out to 2030 as well as multi-year infrastructure spending would help attract private capital investment.

Construction incentives and additional spending on infrastructure announced in the budget provides more certainty for private capital to potentially to invest in housing in Ireland, the chief executive of the Construction Industry Federation has said.

In his speech to the Dáil, finance minister Paschal Donohoe introduced a number of changes in an attempt to incentivise housing developments, particularly apartment construction. He said he was reducing the Vat applied to the sale of completed apartments from 13.5% to 9% from Tuesday night until December 31, 2030.