Foreigners: Please buy the Irish Land!

szarlota, id love a geeorgian home too!

but you did an dyou know you did, made the right chice! your young and able only once :)

miranda, erm it varies. there are rip offs at 250,000k but you can find places from 125,000 to 175,000 if you look (and that is city centre prices so cheaper again for suburbs and further out)

it is expensive. which is why id recommend buying at least a two bed so you can rent out the otehr room :) this is the norm these days and is excellent way to halve a mortgage

not crazy, just very rich. I reckon house prices will be on the increase in Northern Ireland now. A mate of mine has a 4 bed house in Belfast that she bought for next to nothing about 15 yrs ago, she is now living in rented accommodation in London. If she sold the 4 bed house she might just about get a 1 or possibly 2 bed flat in a dodgy area of London.. that should give you some idea of the difference in house prices..

lets all move to Ireland.. the people are friendly, the Guinness is great and houses are still relatively cheap..and I didnt even mention the sexy accent.

i think that price is not bad only a little more expencive than the north of england if you are talking about a semi.

yup, but im econimising.

the average is more expensive (and forget aboutDublin :))

thanks Daff

no body calls my daffy anymore :'( (heheh :))

no problem, wish it was more to your likeing thought

Daff(y)
I just looked it up on the net. I would be able to efford a skeleton of a house in the country:).

Thanks Daffy,
I will move there in my next life time then:). That was an easy decision:)

more than i could afford :)

hehe hey frank! try this topic :P

Sh!t...no.........I leavin' that to all the newbies in our anally rich country!

But...am long time property owner so...am not out to make a killing of any type!

you misread the topic, its foreigners, not irish we want to buy irish land :) like that guy that sells plots of the moon in the states! i plan to sell sods of turf from the back garden!!!

my mother is going to kill me :)

You mean your mother hasn't dis-owned you at this stage...is she Mother Tersea?....lol

Only saw your post and my name on it...soz!

Emmmm...newbies are foreigners!!!

better than! she raised me didnt she?! She would help me buy Irish land too bless her, but its THAT expensive as you know!

lol no worries..

am not really a newbie though, its just cos you old :P (forum wise i mean)

Daffy...no...no....no....newbies as in foreigners/non-nationals.......our new migrant guests...even????

Oh boy.........so your the bastard who sends the hate-mail huh??? Well you're gonna come home and 2 tons of dead fish will be spread all over the place! HAHAHAHA

oh right :P yea, let them buy the Irish land! *35yr mortgages too!* who'd want it?

Just 2 tons...?.....already had that.....needs to be 20 tons...to make any impression...lol

The Japanese...had 70 yr mortgages for last 30 yrs.....

the swiss have two generation mortgages! one i like the dea of

Of course if fooking does you tool, economic 101 price rises to meet demand.


Tools like you caused the property bubble. You are an absolute cretin. Fianna Fail gobshyte, you cannot even spell economy, never mind operate one.

There is a nice spot beside the wall for you, my boyo.


You may not have voted for them, but you spread their propaganda for them. Tools like you do not deserve to be Irish.

It might help the smooth running of the Forum, if you read Rules 2 & 8.

Entitled to your opinion.

Im not FF by the way.
I have an Honours Degree in Business.
Work as a Tax Accountant the last 5 years.


You failed to see the point of the paragraph. This is not a free market. You are regurgitating baby economics 101 yes. This is a mixed market - or 'open economy' and is subject to regulation by the authorities. As such, the govt controls price floors and ceilings etc. taxes on second homes, first time buyer grants etc.

So yes, it is the governements fault for not regulating correctly. They could and should have stopped the upward spiral - but greed was too tempting. Now we have the downward spiral and they cant stop it.


Fail. I do not own a house - I would not buy (and have not) with such ridiculous prices.


If you mean, foreigners welcome? Then yes of course!
Diversity is healthy - if it wasn't for the Central & Eastern Europeans coming to Ireland the past few years our boom would have happened sooner and sharper. Not to forget the passing trade that is tourism.

Unless Im mistaken, which I hope I am,you strike me as pseudo socialist (i.e. you think your left wing - the land for the people, up the 'RA', etc.) but the above comes across as ignorant and a racist (i.e. you think there is free market here and the land for the people....except foreigners).

Now, i've no doubt you'll reply some nonsense and insults so off with you.
I couldn't be arsed giving you anymore of my time.

I say goodday.


boom to bust*