Letters to the Editor: Home buyers haven't a hope

No accountability from our leaders about the crisis in housing

Tthe Bay Meadows housing development in Dublin 15. All 112 houses have been bought by global investment company Round Hill Company, to be put on the rental market. Picture: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie

My boyfriend and I work full-time. We have saved €30,000 and the likelihood is that we will continue to save for another two years in the hopes that properties will become available at affordable prices and a bigger mortgage will enable us to buy.

I have a friend looking to buy in Kildare and, in a 12-month period, she has found — and been outbid on — numerous properties. A recent €250,000 three-bed, detached house in Enfield shot up to €415,000. I have another friend seeking planning permission on her boyfriend’s parents’ land, with all the right paperwork, who has been denied and is going to wait another year in the hopes of the decision being overturned; she is less than sure of the outcome.