Every guide here is written to be genuinely useful and is kept in line with current Irish rules. Where a guide quotes a figure, you can check the maths yourself with the matching calculator, and see exactly how it's worked out on the methodology page.
Guides
Plain-English answers to the questions that come up again and again when you're buying a home in Ireland. No jargon, no sales pitch.
How much deposit do you need to buy a house in Ireland?
The 10% minimum, how the Central Bank rules set it, what counts toward your deposit, and where gifts and Help to Buy fit in.
Help to Buy vs the First Home Scheme
Two different schemes that many first-time buyers use together. What each one does, who qualifies, and how combining them changes the numbers.
Buying your first home in Ireland: the steps
A start-to-finish roadmap, from working out what you can borrow to picking up the keys, with the calculators that help at each stage.