The Irish property market will continue to stabilise next year before picking up slightly in 2015, according to ratings agency Standard and Poors.
In a report on the European housing market S&P says there's "anecdotal" evidence that Dublin is experiencing stock shortages, and that continued economic recovery in 2014 and 2015 should support demand for housing.
S&P says though, that the recovery may be slow, because of the high number of mortgages in arrears and "supply overhang" in some areas.
The agency said it expects unemployment to slowly decline to 13.1% in 2015 from 14.7% in 2012.
S&P also says that the Central Bank's revised code on mortgage arrears could make it easier for banks to repossess homes and that this could curb the nascent pickup in house prices by increasing the number of properties on the market.
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