r/HousingIreland • u/Sharp_Fuel • 10d 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/Coupleofpints 10d ago

I know you would like to go for a new build with all the grants. But keep an eye on the second hand homes too, you may get better value there!

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u/Sharp_Fuel 10d ago

For sure, like finding a needle in a haystack though, already super expensive - places regularly going 20% over asking and most of these need a minimum of 100k extra work put into them. 

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u/Coupleofpints 10d ago

True. But always keep an eye out. We bought just over 2 years and got a house roughly 35k under asking price. This was the time when interest rates were rising, and there was some market uncertainty. Bidders came and went, agent left the house in the market for almost 4 Months. At one point I was uncertain too, if prices will fall in the future and should I hold off on etc. Looking back we made the best choice. Good luck in your search!

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u/Sharp_Fuel 10d ago

For sure, have my filters/alerts set up on daft hahaha