Covid-driven trends to be taken with pinch of salt

Conor Power talks to leading auctioneers about the latest trends in Ireland's new homes market

With measures already in place, those in power are also under justified pressure to try something new as well as reinstating the Help-to-Buy scheme; one of the most important measures for first-time buyers and the building trade that has been introduced in recent years.

The first thing to realise about the current trends in the new homes market is that they are all in the context of a series of extraordinary circumstances.

We’ve never experienced a pandemic before and we’ve never experienced the kinds of measures that the Government have introduced in their efforts to struggle with this phenomenon.