"average Dublin house prices should fall to ‘the €300,000 mark" according to Many Lou McD.

I dont have any. You made the comparison. Why did you bother post that comparison in the first place when you dont have data to allow you to manage the variables?

Now you are acting exactly like MLMD and the rest of SF.

Dumping a link and not explaining it in the context of what we are talking about.

Where did that link come from?

Is that household income?

Did you even look or did you just google and find a tweet that you think made some point and just post it?

I give up. What you have done is a prime example of what everyone in this thread says tat MLMD and SF do. And the funny think is that you dont even realize it and think that its perfectly normal.

Based on recent form a lot of people are starting to see the issues behind the noise with Sinn fein

I said it years ago but an election and a manifesto from Sinn Fein might crumble their vote outside the hardcore

The delusion is telling yourself that those issues are not real issues.

I could never see myself personally voting for them. That doesn't mean I am incapable of recognising other people's issues

As said, i dont know why. You posted it like it was some kind of surprise that build costs in two different countries would be different

i have yet to find a person on boards pushing the Sinn Fein agenda and admit they are a Sinn Fein supporter

Almost as if they are hiding it

If only someone had gone to the bother of working it out and posting the result for all to see!

A couple of ways to achieve that ratio reduction.

Off the top of my head:

1) Earn more

2) Buy a cheaper house outside of the area with the highest demand.

3) Blame it on everyone else and demand "they" give you a cheap house exactly where you want to live.

I would guess that the typical demographic on boards.ie is slightly older than the TikTok generation

I know you mean your response as a tongue in cheek remark, however, I feel the need to point out that that graph was national...

But still

Earn more: grand. What if you can't? What if you're a childcare worker? Or work in a coffee shop? Sure, you can retrain, but we'll still need more childcare workers and waiting staff...

But a cheaper house outside the area with the highest demand.

Grand. I hate this argument the most. People have put down roots for millennia. Usually in a fairly small locale (20 mile radius or thereabouts) but this argument means that children get raised far away from grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins etc. "it takes a village to raise a child", just not in modern Ireland apparently. I live on the other side of Ireland from where I was born because it's what I could afford. I've lost friends, community, my family don't get to see my daughter anywhere near what we wanted, but sure, that's the price to pay to have a roof over your head. Madness.

Lastly: Blame it on everybody else and demand "they" give you a cheap house exactly where you want to live.

Firstly, how does that bring down the ratio reduction?

But seriously, never have I said that. There should be more social housing, in all areas. (Blackrock/Dalkey, I'm looking at you!) There should be social developments consisting of 1,2,3+ bed housing, so people can grow families, and move into smaller units once the families have left. People shouldn't be forced to leave the area they grew up in because they can't afford to live there anymore.

Because you were disputing claims of a lot of under 40's voting for SF and used your experience of boards.ie posters not admitting to be SF supporters as some kind of evidence that that was not the case.

Some of us can do basic sums.

Taking the cost as claimed so that the current cost is 1:10 vis-a-vis the ratio between the 1995 cost and the 2023 cost, then adjusting for inflation is 1.8:10

What is your issue or difficulty with that? The 1.8 is from the CSO. The 1:10 is what was given on here. The subsequent complaint was that the 1:10 did not adjust for inflation.

Are you talking about something completely different? Is it the 10X you are disputing? I made it clear I was taking that as given and adjusting for inflation.

Interesting point.

I think what gets forgotten often too is that the people paying this much for houses typically won't have much to spend after in other areas.

It's going to have a long-term impact on the rest of the economy.

Personally I think a figure of 300k is probably too much even as an average.

I'd say around 200k should be closer to the actual value of labour and materials that would go into building an average house.

Too many middle men and subcontractors making too much profit.