The Irish property bubble was the speculative excess element of a long-term price increase of real estate in the Republic of Ireland from the early 2000s to 2007, a period known as the later part of the Celtic Tiger. In 2006, the prices peaked at the top of the bubble, with a combination of increased speculative construction (financed almost entirely by senior debt) and rapidly rising prices; in 2007 the prices first stabilised and then started to fall until 2010 following the shock effect of the Great Recession. By the second quarter of 2010, house prices in Ireland had fallen by 35% compared with the second quarter of 2007, and the number of housing loans approved fell by 73%.[1][2]
The collapse of the property bubble was one of the major contributing factors to the post-2008 Irish banking crisis.
House prices in Dublin, the largest city, were briefly down 56% from their peak and apartment prices down over 62%.[3]
For a time, house prices returned to twentieth century levels and mortgage approvals dropped to 1971 levels.[4] As of December 2012, more than 28% of Irish mortgages were in arrears or had been restructured and commercial and buy-to-let arrears were at 18%.[5] Since early-2013, property prices in the country began to recover with property prices in Dublin up over 20% from their nadir.[6]
The collapse of the Irish property bubble has had a lasting effect on the political, economic, social and financial landscape of Ireland. While early negative effects such as ghost estates and high unemployment have been largely resolved, the residual collapse of the Irish banking and construction sectors has contributed to a countrywide housing crisis that persists as of 2020.[7][8]
^Quarterly House Prices Bulletin Quarter 2 2010(PDF), Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, archived from the original (PDF) on 31 May 2013, retrieved 26 March 2013
^Planning applications data(PDF), Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, archived from the original (PDF) on 31 May 2013, retrieved 26 March 2013
^Residential Property Price Index(PDF), An Phríomh-Oifig Staidrimh/Central Statistics Office
^Irish mortgage approvals at 1971 level, Finfacts Team, 22 November 2011
^Mortgage Arrears and Repossession StatisticsQ3 2012, Central Bank of Ireland, archived from the original on 3 December 2013, retrieved 1 March 2013
^Residential Property Prices rise by 13.4% in the year to July, CSO.ie, 27 August 2014
^O’Loughlin, Ed (8 August 2019). "Housing Crisis Grips Ireland a Decade After Property Bubble Burst". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
^Brennan, Joe. "I do not need to remind an Irish audience of the implications of a bursting housing bubble". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
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