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News : Property Last Updated: Jan 6, 2015 - 3:17 AM


Price/Earnings multiple for Dublin houses is double 1993 level
By Michael Hennigan, Finfacts founder and editor
Dec 12, 2014 - 7:08 AM

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The Price/Earnings multiple for Dublin houses is double the 1993 level, at the dawn of the Celtic Tiger period.

We don't have median price data for house prices - with half a sample population above the mid-point level and half below - and based on average prices of second hand house in Dublin related to average industrial earnings, we get a multiple of 8.3.

In the ten months to October 2014, the CSO residential price index has risen by 22% and taking the same level of industrial earnings as in 2013 we get a price multiple of 10.2.

We can see from the chart above that in the period 1973-1993 that a typical multiple was about 5 and we can seen from the 1993-2013 experience that the level of 5 is unlikely to be seen again despite rises in supply.

Of course there are a lot more two-income families since 1973 but even so, average annual earnings fell to €35,830 in 2013 compared with our industry income of €42,600.

In Q4 2013 average weakly earnings in industry was at €832; €533 in wholesale/retail trade; €316 in accommodation/food services; €487 in administration/support and €671in human health/social work.

It's easy to understand the basis of the recent National Economic and Social Council's warning (see below) that several income groups face never having a chance of owning their own property while being exposed to Ireland's unpredictable rental market.

The Government showed this week that it's housing policy is a short-term band-aid fix when it was revealed that it had made common cause with the property vested interests' submissions to the Central Bank, opposing proposed restrictions on mortgage lending.

  • It's too afraid of the farming lobby to address the stupidity that land is apparently scarce in a country with the lowest population density in Western Europe;
  • The crisis is in Dublin and until the mid-1990's site costs were typically about 15% of the cost of an apartment - that jumped to over 40% during the bubble;
  • Aversion to high rise and surrender to Nimbies (not in my backyard syndrome) comes at a cost;
  • The windfall tax on rezoned land was abolished this year but reverting again to giving property interests tax breaks is not a solution;
  • The assumption that the rental market will provide 75,000 social housing units by 2020 is based more on prayer than evidence - over 38,000 buy-to-let mortgages or 26% are in arrears and much of the sector had been fuelled by 10-year interest only loans. It's a different credit market now;
  • In bubble times VAT and other public charges accounted for almost 30% of the price of a new house;
  • Currently without CB restrictions mortgage drawdowns are at the 1974/75 level when the population was a third smaller.

Bubble Ireland 2006- Global Survey 2006: Cost of comparable house in Dublin, Ireland, could buy 9 in Houston, Texas, 3 in Amsterdam, 2 in Sydney and Tokyo

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Irish Housing: Renting provides less security than ownership, unpredictable rents - National Economic and Social Council.

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Dublin house prices up 24.1% in year to October 2014

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Irish Housing Rents 2014: Dublin just 10% short of 2007 bubble peak

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