Help to Buy Scheme
The Help to Buy (HTB) programme is a government-funded program that assists first-time buyers with their deposit for purchasing or self-building a new house. Those who take advantage of the plan must buy or build a house for themselves. Those who fulfill the criteria will be eligible for a refund of Income Tax and Deposit Interest Retention Tax (DIRT) paid in Ireland. The refund will be for the four tax years preceding the year in which the application was lodged.
Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme
The Local Authority Affordable Purchase Scheme makes local authority-provided homes more affordable to first-time buyers and Fresh Start applicants whose combined mortgage and deposit do not cover the market price of a newly built property.
First Home Scheme
The First Home Scheme seeks to assist qualifying first-time buyers and Fresh Start applicants by bridging the difference between their deposit and mortgage and the new home’s private market price (subject to regional price ceilings).
Local Authority Home Loan Scheme
The Local Authority Home Loan is a government-backed mortgage for first-time buyers or applicants with a ‘Fresh Start.’ It is offered from all local governments across the country to persons with moderate or low incomes who are unable to obtain adequate money from regulated financial companies to purchase or build a house. Eligible first-time buyers can apply for a Local Authority House Loan to buy a new or used home or to build their own.
Cost Rental
A new type of long-term, sustainable property renting is cost rental. Cost Rental is aimed for middle-income people earning more than the social housing constraints.
Rents for homes under the Cost Rental model are set to pay solely the costs of funding, constructing, administering, and maintaining the dwellings. Rates will be set at 25% less than private market rents in the region.
Mortgage to Rent Scheme
The MTR plan allows households in acute, unsustainable mortgage arrears with little or no possibility of a dramatic improvement in circumstances to surrender a property to a lender and become a social housing renter while remaining in their own home and community. The house will be brought up to private rental requirements as part of the program.