Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Central Statistics Office (CSO) compiles monthly statistics on the volume of purchases of residential property, together with the monthly Residential Property Price Index (RPPI). The main source of data for these statistics is the electronic stamp duty returns collected by the Revenue, which include all transactions of residential properties. The tables on volume of transactions by the CSO include a breakdown of the number of dwellings purchased by type of buyer.

The latest RPPI statistics available are for June 2022 and the following two tables provide information from January 2020 to June 2022.

Table 1 shows the total number of residential dwellings purchased by households at market prices in 2020, 2021 and in the six months from January to June 2022, broken down by Local Authority area. In the period January 2020 through to June 2022 a total of 104,409 dwellings were purchased by households.

Table 2 shows the total number of residential dwellings purchased by first-time buyers at market prices in 2020, 2021 and in the six months from January to June 2022, broken down by Local Authority area. In the period January 2020 through to June 2022 a total of 33,976 dwellings were purchased by first-time buyers.

More detailed statistics and further information can be found in the CSO’s PXStat table publication service (data.cso.ie/product/RPPI- tables HPM03 and HPA03).

Table 1: Number of residential dwellings purchased by households at market prices from January 2020 to June 2022 classified by year and Local Authority Area

Table 2: Number of residential dwellings purchased by first-time buyers at market prices from January 2020 to June 2022 classified by year and Local Authority area