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CLARE was one of only three counties in the Republic of Ireland that didn’t see an increase in the number of residential property transactions in the year up to November 2022, according to the latest Geodirectory Residential Report. GeoDirectory found that there was a vacancy rate of 5.8% for the county in December, which is greater than the 4% average for the country. Of the remainder, 87.7% was occupied, while 6.5% consisted of holiday homes. The report also showed that 3.8% of Clare’s housing stock at the end of last year consisted of apartments. There were 424 new addresses added to GeoDirectory’s database in Clare, out of a total of 28,510 in the Republic. Clare had 1.8% of all construction activity in the year. At the end of last year work was underway on 394 buildings in Co Clare, while there had been 360 residential commencements in the county up until November. Its research showed that Clare had 1,070 residential …
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