Almost one in five of Dublin housing transactions made by non-household buyers

The rise in house prices, despite stringent new mortgage lending rules, has been attributed to the proportion of ‘corporate’ investment in the Dublin residential property market.

The new Residential Property Price Index, launched by CSO today, revealed that non-household buyers such as private equity companies and REITs accounted for 19.6% of all market transactions in Dublin during 2014 and 19.2% in 2015.