93. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of residential properties purchased in the State by persons who were not ordinarily resident in Ireland in each of the past five years, by county; the number of such purchases that were made by purchasers whose principal residence was outside the State; and the proportion these purchases represented of all residential property transactions in each year. [74670/26]

My Department does not hold the data sought. The Central Statistics Office collects and publishes data in relation to residential dwelling property transactions disaggregated by dwelling status and buyer type and can be found on the CSO website at: https://data.cso.ie/table/HPM02.

Data show some 51,415 homes were purchased by households in the 12-months ending August 2026, an increase of 3% year on year and up 4% on the same period in 2022. At the same time, first time buyers purchased 8,564 new homes in the year to August 2026, an increase of 24% year-on-year [6,914]. While the number of new homes purchased by all household purchasers in the 12 months to August 2026 increased 19% year on year, from 11,235 to 13,378.