Estate agents admit four- and five-bedroom detached properties in Dublin are now only fetching 50pc of their 2007 prices. … This means upwardly-mobile couples who shelled out an average of €1m at the height of the boom years are now sitting in a house worth just €5 00,000….Things are much worse in Dublin for struggling homeowners who are seeing themselves plunged further into negative equity as prices have plummeted by half.

According to a House Ways and Means oversight committee, the IRS is investigating 167 “c …

For those interested in taking advantage of the program, this means a house purchase must be completed by that date in order to receive the credit. ..