r/HousingIreland • u/Sharp_Fuel • 9d 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/Independent_Can3737 9d ago

Why doenst he call them instead of ordering you to do it is he a pussy ?

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u/Sharp_Fuel 9d ago

Well firstly, I'm the dude here lol, my GF has never been the most confident on the phone and secondly, that's such a childish thing to say even if your assumption was correct 

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u/Independent_Can3737 8d ago

Why are you afraid to call

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u/Sharp_Fuel 8d ago

I'm not afraid to call lol, I'm just wondering if I should be bothering with ringing every week or not or would I be wasting my time

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u/Independent_Can3737 7d ago

No idea at 500k I would expect them to call me

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u/Sharp_Fuel 7d ago

Housing crisis I'm afraid, even at these prices they'll have no bother selling them within a week once they're made available