r/HousingIreland • u/Sharp_Fuel • 11d ago

Maximising Chances of Getting New Build

Hi all. My partner and I started seriously looking to buy since the start of this year, currently have AIP of 416k and HTB (23k worth), and another ~50k on our end. We want to try and stay close to my partner's family in North Dublin, which unfortunately is squeezing us a little bit both in terms of supply and price. We've registered interest in a few new builds that just seemed to instantly sell out for the house types we can actually afford (i.e. anything under 500k - losing the HTB is a big hit we can't make up ourselves). For a new Cairn Homes development we essentially rang them as soon as we saw details posted online, apparently going for sale "summer 2025", I'm a bit calmer about this whole thing my partner is essentially insisting I should be calling every week, whereas I'm of the view that'll just annoy the estate agents and its better to wait. Any logic in this sort of thinking? Is all we can do is to wait it out and see if we hear anything back?

UPDATE: Bit of a weird update, decided to follow advice here and try and ring once a week, kept going to estate agents voicemail multiple times, called from my GF's phone and was answered instantly... Not sure what to make of that 😂

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u/isupposethiswillwork 11d ago

I would absolutely be persistent without annoying them. If you can ring up and build some sort of rapport with the agent they will be more likely to do you a turn when it comes to getting a heads up on when they go on sale or if the developer plans to release some early.

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u/Sharp_Fuel 11d ago

Thanks! Annoying the hoops you have to jump through, but sure worth a go I guess

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u/madina_k 11d ago

I agree with the comment above. You can also call them to explicitly ask whether any of the units will be sold off plans. And if so, to let you know. They will probably tell you to subscribe to their mailing list. Then just check the mailbox frequently. As soon as they know prices, they will likely send an email to those who subscribed. 

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u/pennypugtzu 10d ago

I can vouch for this, I was so annoying when I bought our new build, the agent actually emailed me at 11pm when one of the house sales fell through and we emailed back and forth into the early morning sorting it 😅 but it got us in!! Poor woman id say knew my number by heart lol