Greater transparency would improve buyer confidence, said Mr Daly. This would in turn facilitate a more efficient property market and also be good news for sellers of residential property, he said.
Mr Daly said the commercial property market could also benefit from improved confidence if the proposal was extended to this sector.
“We favour extending this proposal to commercial property sales transactions because we believe that transparency would enhance the efficiency of that market also,” he said.
The NAMA Chairman also reiterated the Agency’s intention to make €2 billion in vendor finance available to prospective buyers of commercial properties controlled by NAMA debtors and receivers. Referring to the scale of the commitment, the NAMA Chairman said:”€2 billion is a substantial injection of capital. To put it in context, Ireland’s commercial property market saw just €200 million worth of investment last year. At the peak of the market in 2006, investment levels reached €3 billion. The €2 billion is not, of course, restricted to Ireland but these figures give you a sense of the potential contribution that NAMA vendor finance can make in the Irish market.”
However, Mr Daly warned that, while market-based mechanisms could help reinforce the emerging signs of stability in the Irish property market, these mechanisms are not a panacea; “Recovery will ultimately be anchored in economic and financial developments here and internationally,” he said.
