MetroLink Corridor Property Guide 2026: Prices by Stop

Asking what MetroLink will do to Dublin property prices is the right question at the right moment. On 12 January 2026 the Railway Order for the 18.8 km, 16-station line became operative, procurement is running, the Transport Minister says ground will break in August 2027, and the build is expected to take 6 to 8 years. The window between “approved” and “diggers in the ground” is historically where the interesting price moves happen.

This is the data-led version of that question, mapped stop by stop with the Ballymun and Glasnevin investment story, the Luas precedent applied honestly, and a buy-now-or-wait playbook. One promise up front: nothing here says a metro will make you rich. The evidence says rail amplifies neighbourhoods that are already improving, and does little for those that are not.

MetroLink status update 2026: the Railway Order is in, procurement is running

MetroLink stopped being a proposal in the last year and became a programme. The milestone sequence, from the project’s own records:

The scale explains the attention: a fully segregated, automated, mostly underground metro built for up to 20,000 passengers per direction per hour at peak with an initial three-minute headway (ENR), and the largest public-transport infrastructure investment in the State’s history. Two caveats before pricing it in: the cost question is not closed (reports in July 2026 said Cabinet could approve a preliminary budget up to €19bn, while the Minister calls higher published figures “far off the mark”; Wikipedia; Gript), and no opening date is official. The working assumption below is construction 2027-2035 with phased opening; every forward statement is a scenario, not a schedule.

The corridor: 16 stops from Swords to Charlemont

MetroLink runs north to south from Estuary at the northern edge of Swords to Charlemont on the Grand Canal. Stations above ground or in retained cut north of the airport; underground from Dublin Airport to Charlemont. A text map (replace with TII’s official route graphic in the CMS):

NORTH - Swords & Fingal Estuary ......... park & ride Seatown Swords Central Fosterstown ..... park & ride Dardistown ...... park & ride - depot Dublin Airport .. underground airport station Northwood ....... Northwood business campus Ballymun Collins Avenue ... DCU / Whitehall Griffith Park .... Finglas Road / Griffith Park Glasnevin ........ interchange with DART+ West / Iarnród Éireann (new integrated station) Mater ............ Mater Hospital, North Circular Road O'Connell Street . interchange with Luas (Cross City) Tara ............. interchange with DART / Commuter St Stephen's Green interchange with Luas Green Charlemont ....... interchange with Luas Green (terminus)
SOUTH

Alignment and station list per the granted Railway Order materials (metrolinkro.ie) and the published route map (Wikipedia). The line runs ~18.8 km; the Swords-city section rewrites the region’s commuting map, while the airport stop changes Dublin’s relationship with its own front door.

Station-area analysis: six stops worth understanding

The residential catchments that matter are the six stops below. District figures use the same PPR-based series as our neighbourhood guides.

Sources: Dublish PPR-based medians and growth (March 2026) and registered-rent-basis gross yields (Dublin house prices by area; Dublin rental yields by area); CSO RPPI June 2026 for the Dublin city median (CSO). Gross yields divide RTB registered rents by PPR sale prices and run below asking-rent series; net yields run 2 to 3 points lower after costs and tax. Ballymun and Glasnevin get full deep dives below; first, the four city stops, which behave more like each other than like the suburbs.

The city stops: Mater, O’Connell Street, Tara, St Stephen’s Green, Charlemont

Mater serves the Mater Hospital on Eccles Street plus the residential ring around it: Phibsborough’s terraces, the North Circular Road apartments and the north-inner-city streets. Its catchment is effectively Dublin 7 plus the D1 edge, which is why the mix is yield-plus-growth (D7 ~7.9% gross, D1 ~10.2%). It also gains least novelty: the 2017 Luas Cross City line already runs through Phibsborough (Wikipedia).

O’Connell Street is the north side’s busiest interchange, where MetroLink meets the Luas Cross City Green Line (Wikipedia). The catchment is D1 apartment stock: €275,000 median, ~10.2% gross yield, small units, income-driven rather than family-driven. TII bought the former Carlton Cinema in July 2026 for the station entrance (Wikipedia), a reminder that city-centre land values are already moving around the alignment.

Tara is the DART/Commuter interchange, so its catchment is the whole south-east rail basin: office and Docklands flows, apartment-led stock, no D2 median in our series. Benchmark against the €480,000 Dublin city median (CSO).

St Stephen’s Green and Charlemont close the line at the south, both interchanging with the Luas Green Line. Charlemont, the terminus, sits on the Grand Canal at the Ranelagh border, where the premium southside market begins at a €595,000 Dublin 6 median with ~5.0% gross yield (Dublish). The read is the reverse of Ballymun’s: these stops are already expensive, so MetroLink defends values rather than creating a re-rating.

Ballymun house prices in 2026: the corridor’s biggest re-rating candidate

Ballymun is the stop investors talk about, and the numbers explain why. Dublin 11 (Finglas and Ballymun together) has a €246,000 median sale price, +8.4% annual growth and a ~8.4% gross rental yield on the registered-rent basis (Dublish; Dublish – yields). That is the cheapest serious corridor market in the city and one of the fastest-appreciating, against a Dublin region median of €500,000 growing 4.6% (CSO). Median, growth and yield all point the same way, which is rare.

Be precise about what the data covers. The D11 median blends Finglas and Ballymun sales, and Ballymun itself splits three ways: the regenerated estates and private apartments built since the towers fell, original-condition houses that survived, and new mixed-tenure developments along the Main Street/Ballymun Road spine. Owner-occupation inside the old regeneration area reached only about 28%, most households remaining in social housing (older council analysis, Irish Times); the private stock that trades is scarce, so check tenure mix street by street.

The regeneration pipeline is current, which is the second reason this stop differs:

• BusConnects first. The Ballymun/Finglas to City Centre Core Bus Corridor construction contract went to GRAHAM in December 2025 (announced 15 Dec, signed 19 Dec), with site works expected through 2026 (BusConnects; Liffey Valley scheme site). Ballymun gets a genuinely better bus service years before the metro, which supports rents and prices in the gap.
• Town centre. Dublin City Council is seeking a developer for the former Ballymun Shopping Centre site (TheJournal.ie) and is in talks with the Land Development Agency on affordable housing at the old Town Centre complex (Irish Times).
• Housing sites. The largest social-housing development since the towers fell, 288 homes on the former flat-block sites, was approved for delivery in early 2025; the local-area plan envisages roughly 2,000 more homes, mostly apartments, on vacant land (Irish Times).
• Two metro stops. Ballymun and Northwood (business campus on the DCU edge) bracket the suburb; Ballymun Library is even an official public-inspection point for the Railway Order documents (metrolinkro.ie).

The honest risks sit beside the opportunity. Ballymun stays a bus-only suburb until the mid-2030s on the current schedule; its amenity and retail base is thinner than Glasnevin’s; and the district median can mislead given how much individual developments vary. Buy the pockets on the Main Street/Ballymun Road spine closest to the metro and BusConnects corridors and around the new town-centre development; a quiet cul-de-sac far from both is a different investment.

Glasnevin: the steady compounder on the corridor

Glasnevin is the corridor’s family-belt play, and its numbers are the calm version of Ballymun’s: €355,500 median in Dublin 9 (Glasnevin and Drumcondra), +6.7% annual growth, ~7.3% gross yield (Dublish; Dublish – yields). Less headline than D11, but the stock is the difference: Victorian and Edwardian red brick around Griffith Avenue, mature semis, a genuine village centre, the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin Cemetery and DCU’s campus.

Transport is where Glasnevin becomes a corridor linchpin rather than another nice D9 suburb:

• MetroLink Glasnevin station is planned as a heavy-rail interchange, the published route map showing the Iarnród Éireann connection at Glasnevin (Wikipedia).
• DART+ West will electrify and intensify the Maynooth and M3 Parkway lines; Iarnród Éireann’s preferred option includes a new fully integrated Glasnevin/Phibsborough station serving both DART+ and MetroLink (Iarnród Éireann). Its Railway Order became operative in June 2025, with enabling works expected from 2026 (DART+).
• Luas Green already runs at Broombridge on the district’s edge (Cross City, opened December 2017), and Drumcondra’s existing rail station serves the northern edge (Wikipedia).

That stack matters because D9 does not need a re-rating to be a good buy; it needs growth to continue, and three rail investments pointing at one postcode is the strongest structural support in the city. The rental side is underpinned by DCU: student and staff demand keeps lettings active year-round, which is why the ~7.3% yield holds up despite the higher purchase price (Dublish).

Trade-offs mirror Ballymun’s. At €355,500 the median sits above what most single first-time buyers can borrow, and the best houses trade well above it; parking and BER issues are normal on century-old stock; and the strongest yields sit in student-heavy pockets a family buyer should avoid. Glasnevin is the long-hold option on the corridor: less headline upside than D11, far fewer ways to be wrong.

Swords and the airport corridor: the commuter-belt play

North of the airport, four Swords-area stops (Estuary and Fosterstown with park-and-ride, Seatown, Swords Central, then Dardistown) turn Fingal’s biggest town from a bus commuter belt into a metro terminus town (Wikipedia). The current Swords median is about €406,000 on 2024-25 PPR sales (Property Data Ireland, same geocoded-PPR method as its station-premium analysis, PropertyData): below the €500,000 Dublin regional median for a town that gains a metro ride to the city in roughly the time the bus currently takes to cross the airport toll plaza. New master-planned communities along the corridor are exactly the stock where the Help to Buy and First Home Scheme maths below works hardest.

Swords is the purest commuter-belt bet: you pay for today’s inconvenience to buy tomorrow’s commute, and the payoff depends on the project landing on schedule. Want the same logic without MetroLink’s timeline? Compare Dublin 15 (Castleknock and Blanchardstown), where the catalyst is DART+ West: €325,000 median, +6.4% growth, and an electrified Maynooth/M3 corridor whose Railway Order is already operative (Dublish; DART+). D15 has no yield in the registered-rent series, and its rail line is further advanced, which is a different risk profile.

The Luas precedent: what rail actually did to prices

Both bulls and bears argue from the same episode, the Luas Green Line, so it deserves a careful read. The Green Line opened 30 June 2004 (St Stephen’s Green to Sandyford) and was extended to Bride’s Glen at Cherrywood on 16 October 2010 (Wikipedia – Green Line). The research since:

• A standing premium, not a one-off spike. Geocoding 40,896 Property Price Register sales from 2024-25, Property Data Ireland found homes within 1 km of a Green Line stop sell around €500,000 median, about +15% versus €435,000 beyond 3 km of any stop (PropertyData). The same study measured a +27% DART premium and a negative Red Line one, which is the cautionary half of the story.
• Faster appreciation after opening. TU Dublin research found prices within 1 km of Green Line stops rose faster than comparable areas after opening, the direct evidence for a real “tram effect” rather than pre-existing wealth (PropertyData, summarising the studies). Daft’s 2018 analysis put the sales premium at ~15% (about €61,000) within 1 km of a stop, with rents ~15% higher too (TheJournal.ie).
• The sweet spot is not the station door. The 0-500 m band prices below the 500 m to 1.5 km ring because station-front land fills with apartments; the family-house premium sits in the walkable 0.5-1.5 km band, worth roughly €115,000 versus transit-free Dublin (PropertyData).
• The Red Line is the limit case. Rail access alone did not transform Tallaght or Saggart; transit amplifies demand that already exists (PropertyData). The northside lesson: Ballymun’s re-rating depends on the regeneration and BusConnects work happening, not on the rails alone.

One figure needs a health warning. Commentary on the 2004-2010 window sometimes claims uplift of roughly 40-60% at stops versus off-corridor areas; we could not re-verify that range against published primary research at writing. The verified studies point to a 5-15% structural premium plus faster post-opening appreciation, concentrated in catchments already gentrifying. Treat 40-60% as an unverified industry claim until the researcher can source it, and underwrite on the verified range.

The honest risks

MetroLink is a 10-plus-year bet and the market is already pricing part of it:

1. Timeline slippage. An operative Railway Order is not a shovel. Main contract awards target late 2027, the August 2027 ground-breaking is a Ministerial target, and no opening date is official (Wikipedia). Every slip moves the payoff later.
2. Cost and funding. The 2021 planning estimate was €7-12bn; €2bn of Climate and Nature Fund money was committed in November 2025; July 2026 reports put a possible Cabinet budget at up to €19bn, with higher figures disputed (Wikipedia; TII; Gript). A heavier final business case raises the odds of scope or phasing changes; phased opening has already been mooted (Irish Independent).
3. Planning and legal risk at the margins. The RO survived judicial review (a Ranelagh challenge was lodged November 2025 and withdrawn in December 2025), but station sites are still being assembled, and archaeology on a tunnelled line through Georgian and medieval Dublin is a genuine construction-phase risk (Wikipedia).
4. Value capture. Governments have discussed taxing the windfall public infrastructure creates for landowners for years without enacting it: the 2021 General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill never progressed, and the OECD documents Ireland’s reliance on developer contributions rather than true value capture (OECD). A future levy is plausible precisely because MetroLink is so large; it would most plausibly target development land and large sites rather than existing homes. Watch the autumn Budget and the final business case.
5. Overpaying for the promise. The classic megaproject mistake is paying 2035 prices in 2026. The expensive southern stops and Glasnevin have limited re-rating headroom; the discount markets (D11, the outer belt) hold the upside, but only if the regeneration arrives with the rails.

Investment playbook: buy now, at construction start, or after opening?

The Luas evidence suggests two steep phases, around announcement-to-construction and around opening, with gentler appreciation between. That argues for a framework, not a timing call:

Hold-versus-flip mostly answers itself on the northside numbers. D11 at ~8.4% gross on a €246,000 median supports hold-and-rent: the income covers the wait, and the 2% national rent cap (since 1 March 2026) means underwriting 2%-a-year rent growth is the disciplined move (RTB). Net yields run 2 to 3 points below gross after mortgage interest, tax up to 52%, property tax, insurance and voids: expect roughly 5-6% net in D11 and 4.5-5.5% in D9 at current prices (Dublish). Flipping pre-opening is the weaker play in discount areas: resale demand for a flipped D11 house depends on amenities and confidence that may not arrive until the mid-2030s, and Dublin’s transaction costs (stamp duty 1% on the first €1m, solicitors, surveys, bidding ~10% over asking under €500,000) eat thin margins (CCPC; Owen Reilly). If you flip, flip the proven city stops, not the frontier.

One discipline point applies to everyone: buy the 500 m to 1.5 km walkable ring, not the station door, and buy the street that gains both transport and amenity. The Luas data is unambiguous that transit plus neighbourhood beats transit alone (PropertyData).

First-time buyers: Help to Buy and the First Home Scheme on the corridor

The corridor’s new-build pipeline, from Ballymun’s town-centre and local-area-plan sites to the Swords master-planned communities and D15 estates, is where the State’s two big FTB schemes apply, because both are new-build schemes. (Figures current to September 2026; Budget 2027 lands 6 October and scheme changes must be re-checked at publish.)

Help to Buy (HTB) is a Revenue-administered tax refund for first-time buyers of a new home: the lesser of €30,000, 10% of market value (or approved self-build valuation), or income tax and DIRT paid in the four years before application; the home must cost €500,000 or less and come from a Revenue-approved developer (Citizens Information). A couple with a few years of Irish tax history usually collects the full or near-full amount on a corridor new build; a buyer straight out of college collects less, because the refund is capped by tax actually paid.

The First Home Scheme (FHS) bridges what HTB and a mortgage cannot: the State co-invests an equity stake of up to 30% of the price, reduced to 20% if you also use HTB, minimum stake 2.5% or €10,000, on eligible new builds and self-builds up to a €500,000 ceiling in Dublin (First Home Scheme; McGrath Group). The first five years are free; a service charge applies from year six; you can buy the State’s share back anytime. About 8,000 buyers have been approved since 2022, drawing over €273m in support (Irish Property Guide).

Worked examples (author calculations, before fees, lender stress tests and bidding):

• Couple on €80,000 combined: borrow up to ~€320,000 at 4× income. On a €350,000 Ballymun-adjacent new build, HTB (€30,000) plus a 20% FHS share (€70,000) plus a 10% deposit can close a gap salary alone cannot. This is the demographic the corridor pipeline targets.
• Couple on €100,000 combined: borrow ~€400,000 and reach D9 entry stock and Swords new builds near the median, with HTB/FHS making new-build versions genuinely reachable on a 10% deposit (Central Bank).
• Single buyer on €60,000: borrow ~€240,000; realistic targets are D11’s cheaper apartments and compact houses and the city stops’ one-beds, where the €246,000 district median is inside reach (Dublish).

Two cautions. HTB and FHS are deposit and bridging tools, not discounts: HTB is capped by your own tax history, and FHS is a shared-equity stake the State will eventually want serviced or bought back. And the best new-build values come with the longest waits for the metro, so do not let a scheme push you into a 2035 timeline you cannot hold. Our full HTB-versus-FHS comparison goes deeper ; the buying-guide hub covers the process end to end.

Frequently asked questions

Will MetroLink increase property prices near its stations?
Yes, structurally but modestly, on the Luas evidence: homes within 1 km of a stop carry roughly a 15% premium and appreciated faster after opening, with the effect strongest in the 0.5-1.5 km ring and in neighbourhoods already improving (PropertyData; TheJournal.ie). The Red Line shows rail alone does not transform a weak area. Expect the biggest relative moves in the corridor’s discount markets (D11, the outer belt), the smallest at its premium stops.

When will MetroLink open?
No official date. The Railway Order became operative on 12 January 2026; procurement is running with main contract awards targeted for late 2027; the Minister says ground breaks in August 2027; the build is expected to take 6 to 8 years, possibly in phases (metrolinkro.ie; Irish Independent; Wikipedia).

Is Ballymun a good investment in 2026?
On the district numbers, yes with eyes open: D11’s €246,000 median, +8.4% growth and ~8.4% gross yield are the strongest combination on the corridor, and the BusConnects contract, town-centre redevelopment and housing pipeline give catalysts before the metro arrives (Dublish; BusConnects). Risks: the tenure mix, thin amenity base and decade-long wait. Buy the pockets on the transport spine and underwrite 2% rent growth.

Are Ballymun and Glasnevin good places to live?
Different answers, same corridor. Glasnevin (D9) is the established family belt: red brick, Botanic Gardens, DCU, three rail investments converging. Ballymun (D11) is earlier in its story: improving fast, far cheaper, but with street-by-street variation in tenure and stock. Visit at different times and check each development’s mix before bidding.

Which MetroLink station area is cheapest for first-time buyers?
Ballymun and D11 at a €246,000 median, then the city stops’ apartments (D1 at €275,000) and D15 at €325,000 on the DART+ West side (Dublish). New builds along the corridor also unlock Help to Buy and the First Home Scheme, which change the maths materially for couples.

What are Swords house prices in 2026?
Around €406,000 at the median on 2024-25 PPR sales (PropertyData), for a town gaining four metro stops and two park-and-ride sites under the current plans. The case is commute compression, not yield: Swords trades below the €500,000 Dublin regional median at the terminus of the State’s largest transport project.

Does MetroLink go through Dublin Airport?
Yes. Dublin Airport is one of the 16 stations, underground within the airport’s operational footprint, and its station box is being procured early as an enabling works package so it is ready before major tunnelling (ENR; Wikipedia).

Bottom line

MetroLink is the largest Dublin transport infrastructure project in the State’s history, it is legally approved, and it is due under construction from 2027. The honest Luas read: rail adds a real but modest premium (roughly 15% in the walkable ring today) and accelerates appreciation where neighbourhoods are already improving, while doing little where nothing else changes. That points one way along this corridor: the re-rating upside sits in Ballymun and D11, where the median is €246,000, growth is 8.4%, gross yield ~8.4%, and BusConnects and regeneration arrive years before the metro; Glasnevin is the steadier family and rental play; Swords and the outer belt are the longer-dated commute bets; and the premium southern stops are about defence, not discovery. Buy the 500 m to 1.5 km ring, buy the street where transport and amenity arrive together, and never pay 2035 prices in 2026.

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Sources (verified 5 September 2026)

1. MetroLink Railway Order project site: RO granted 30 Sep 2025 (An Coimisiún Pleanála); RO operative 12 Jan 2026 under s.43(4) Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001; 16 stations, ~18.8 km, Estuary-Charlemont via Swords, Airport, Ballymun, Glasnevin and city centre; Ballymun Library an inspection point. – https://www.metrolinkro.ie
2. MetroLink (Dublin), Wikipedia: station list and route map with Luas/Iarnród Éireann interchanges; M500 procurement launched May 2026 (€7.3bn NPV notice); Carlton Cinema site acquired Jul 2026 for O’Connell Street station; Nov 2025 €2bn ICNF approval; Jul 2026 reports of a possible ~€19bn preliminary budget; JR lodged Nov 2025, withdrawn Dec 2025; no official opening date; 6-8 year build guidance. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroLink_(Dublin)
3. ENR, “Ireland Splits $18B MetroLink Procurement”: M401/M402 packages with awards targeted Q3/Q4 2027; enabling works incl. Dublin Airport station box; capacity 20,000 pphpd; initial 3-minute headway. – https://www.enr.com/articles/62986-ireland-splits-18b-metrolink-procurement-into-separate-civil-rail-systems-packages
4. Irish Independent (21 Jun 2026): Minister O’Brien, “We will break ground next August [2027]”; possible phased opening. – https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/metrolink-could-open-in-phases-after-breaking-ground-next-summer-minister-darragh-obrien-says/a/157349440.html
5. TII press release (26 Nov 2025): Cabinet approval of the €24.3bn Sectoral Investment Plan for Transport 2026-2030 incl. €2bn ICNF allocation for MetroLink. – https://www.tii.ie/en/news/press-releases/minister-obrien-secures-cabinet-approval-for-243-billion-sectoral-investment-plan-for-transport-2026-2030
6. MetroLink news: M500 contract notice (trains, track, stations, 25-year operation; €7.3bn NPV, Feb 2026); enabling-works frameworks; archaeology and heritage contracts. – https://www.metrolink.ie/en/news/procurement/metrolink-announces-contract-for-supplying-trains-tracks-and-stations-and-operating-service-for-25-years
7. Gript: Minister O’Brien rejects reported €23bn cost figure as “far off the mark”. – https://gript.ie/metrolink-e23bn-cost-far-off-the-mark-says-obrien
8. Dublish, Dublin House Prices by Area 2026 (PPR-based, March 2026): D11 €246,000 +8.4%; D9 €355,500 +6.7%; D7 €330,000 +7.5%; D1 €275,000 +6.3%; D6 €595,000 +6.0%; D15 €325,000 +6.4%. – https://dublish.ie/guides/dublin-house-prices-by-area-2026
9. Dublish, Dublin Rental Yields by Area 2026 (registered-rent basis: RTB registered rents ÷ PPR): D11 ~8.4%; D9 ~7.3%; D7 ~7.9%; D1 ~10.2%; D6 ~5.0%; D15 not published. – https://dublish.ie/guides/dublin-rental-yields-by-area-2026
10. CSO, Residential Property Price Index June 2026 (19 Aug 2026): Dublin +4.6% YoY; Dublin median €500,000; Dublin city €480,000; national €396,000. – https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-rppi/residentialpropertypriceindexjune2026
11. Property Data Ireland, “The DART & Luas Effect” (2024-25 PPR sales, 40,896 sales): Green Line within-1km premium +15% (€500,000 vs €435,000 beyond 3 km); DART +27%; Red Line -13.5%; 0.5-1.5 km sweet spot; €115,000 transit gap; Swords median ~€406,000; TU Dublin studies. – https://propertydata.ie/articles/dart-luas-effect-dublin-property-prices
12. TheJournal.ie (Oct 2018) on the Daft.ie Luas study: ~15% sales premium (~€61,000) and ~15% rent premium within 1 km of a Luas stop. – https://www.thejournal.ie/daft-property-prices-luas-4275356-Oct2018
13. Wikipedia, Green Line (Luas): opened 30 Jun 2004 (St Stephen’s Green-Sandyford); Bride’s Glen extension opened 16 Oct 2010. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Line_(Luas)
14. BusConnects Dublin: Ballymun/Finglas to City Centre Core Bus Corridor construction contract awarded Dec 2025; site works anticipated from 2026. – https://busconnects.ie/cities/dublin/core-bus-corridors
15. Liffey Valley scheme site (BusConnects): GRAHAM contract signed 19 Dec 2025 for the Ballymun/Finglas corridor. – https://liffeyvalleyscheme.ie/busconnects-dublin-infrastructure-head-discusses-ballymun-finglas-corridor-as-contract-is-signed
16. Irish Times (21 Jan 2025): Ballymun 288-home social development; ~2,000 more homes possible under the local-area plan; LDA talks on affordable housing at the former Town Centre site. – https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/01/21/ballymun-to-get-biggest-social-housing-development-since-towers-demolition
17. TheJournal.ie (regeneration coverage): Dublin City Council seeking a developer for the former Ballymun Shopping Centre site. – https://www.thejournal.ie/regeneration/news
18. Irish Times (2017): Ballymun Local Area Plan, ~34 hectares vacant land, ~2,000 homes; owner-occupation ~28% after regeneration. – https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/council-approves-plan-to-build-2-000-homes-in-ballymun-1.3151320
19. DART+ West (dartplus.ie): Railway Order operative Jun 2025 after judicial review; enabling works expected 2026; electrified Maynooth/M3 Parkway to Connolly and proposed Spencer Dock. – https://www.dartplus.ie/en-ie/projects/dart-west
20. Iarnród Éireann, DART+ West Emerging Preferred Option: new fully integrated station at Phibsborough/Glasnevin serving DART+ Maynooth Line and MetroLink. – https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/about-us/iarnrod-eireann-projects-and-investments/dart-programme/dart-west-public-consultation/dart-west-line-emerging-preferred-option
21. Citizens Information, Help to Buy: FTB refund capped at the lesser of €30,000, 10% of market value, or income tax/DIRT paid in the prior 4 years; new-build price cap €500,000; Revenue-approved developers. – https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/owning-a-home/help-with-buying-a-home/help-to-buy-scheme
22. First Home Scheme, eligibility: up to 30% equity (20% with HTB); minimum 2.5% or €10,000; new builds and self-builds; service charges from year 6. – https://www.firsthomescheme.ie/about-the-scheme/eligibility
23. Irish Property Guide, FHS calculator: ~8,000 buyers approved, €273m+ support; Dublin price cap €500,000. – https://irishpropertyguide.ie/calculators/first-home-scheme
24. McGrath Group: HTB and FHS comparison; FHS new-build only; Dublin cap €500,000; HTB refund mechanics. – https://mcgrathgroup.com/help-to-buy-the-first-home-scheme-a-complete-guide-for-irish-buyers
25. Central Bank of Ireland, mortgage measures (4× income FTB / 3.5× others; 10% deposit owner-occupied); CCPC (stamp duty 1% on first €1m). – https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures ; https://www.ccpc.ie/manage-your-money/buying-a-home/about-mortgages/understanding-mortgages
26. RTB: rental law changes from 1 March 2026, national 2% rent cap. – https://rtb.ie/renting/rental-law-changes-from-1-march/
27. Owen Reilly: Dublin market 2026, bidding ~10% over asking under €500,000. – https://www.owenreilly.ie/current-trends-in-the-dublin-property-market-2026
28. OECD, Global Compendium of Land Value Capture Policies (Ireland chapter): 2021 General Scheme of Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill; Ireland’s developer-contribution regime. – https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/global-compendium-of-land-value-capture-policies_4f9559ee-en/full-report/ireland_3547819a.html

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