Tenant Incremental Purchase Scheme

There are a number of pre-requisites households must meet including:

• Tenants/joint tenants must have minimum reckonable income of €12,500 per annum.
  This change will ensure persons whose pension is their primary source of income can now apply under the scheme. The change only applies to pensions - other social welfare payments may only be regarded as secondary income.
• Reckonable income must come mainly from regular employment and not solely from social welfare.
• Tenants will be required to be in receipt of social housing support for 10 years to be considered eligible under the scheme.
  In the case of joint tenancies, both tenants must be in receipt of social housing support for at least 10 years before being eligible to apply.
• Applicants are disqualified from purchasing as a result of having purchased before.
• Applicants must have a satisfactory rent record, and all charges up to date.
• Houses must be available for sale and not restricted as in past schemes (i.e. not houses specifically reserved for elderly, transitional accommodation, traveller accommodation, in interests of estate management etc.)
  For income between €12,500 and €20,000 tenant purchase discount will be 60% of purchase price and an Incremental Purchase Charge of 60% will apply to the house and will be reduced by 2% per annum over 30 years.

For income between €20,001 and €29,999 tenant purchase discount will be 50% of purchase price and an Incremental Purchase Charge of 50% will apply to the house and will be reduced by 2% per annum over 25 years.

For income over €30,000 tenant purchase discount will be 40% of purchase price and an Incremental Purchase Charge will apply to the house and will be reduced by 2% per annum over 20 years.