In the last couple of weeks, three different reports on the housing market – first the Daft.ie Sales Report and then last week the CSO and MyHome – have had more or less the same headline: the rate of inflation in the sales market is slowing. And digging into the details, two numbers from the Daft.ie report fit together well. In addition to the cooling off in price inflation – early figures suggest transaction prices rose by just 0.8% in the year to September – availability has improved. On September 1st, there were 13,775 second-hand homes for sale across the…

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