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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 12, 2007

QUESTION NO. 8

QUESTION: Councillor E. Tuffy

To ask the Manager if he will make a report on the disposal/facilitation of disposal by the Council of Affordable Housing units in 2005 and 2006, under Part V and the Sustaining Progress Affordable Homes Initiative,  and if the report can include figures for the average selling price of units of different types (apartments, duplexes, houses) and sizes by location( ie Tallaght, Clondalkin, Lucan, Rathcoole), and how selling prices compare in terms of percentage with market prices of the units? 

REPLY:

The following is a list of the average prices under the various affordable schemes in 2005 and 2006.

The average price varies from 42% to 61% of market value:

Location

Size

No. of Units

Average Price

2005 & 2006

Tallaght

1 bed

2 bed

3 bed

13

198

146

111,160

155,000

150,300

Lucan

1 bed

2 bed

3 bed

nil 

126

62

149,500

169,269

Clondalkin

1 bed

2 bed

3 bed

4

26

           

                   nil

121,973

159,000