A €700,000 home has annual LPT around €618, depending on the council. https://www.revenue.ie/en/property/local-property-tax/valuing-your-property/valuation-band

A €700,000 home has annual LPT around €618, depending on the council. https://www.revenue.ie/en/property/local-property-tax/valuing-your-property/valuation-bands-rates.aspx https://www.revenue.ie/en/property/local-property-tax/valuin... To me, a tax of under 0.1% is pretty close to 0. If only ETF's enjoyed the same treatment, it might be easier to save up for a deposit! We agree that scarcity is what makes houses more expensive. Edit: I can't reply to below but ETF's suffer from deemed disposal, where even unrealized gains are taxed at 41% after holding them for 8 years. https://irishfinancial.ie/how-you-calculate-deemed-disposal/ https://irishfinancial.ie/how-you-calculate-deemed-disposal/