{"id":394442,"date":"2026-04-12T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394442\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:22:09","slug":"oil-fired-homes-more-expensive-to-heat-and-now-harder-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394442\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil fired homes: More expensive to heat and now harder to sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Prices of oil-fired properties will struggle as cost of filling the tank rises to hit a 30-year high\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"House-hunters are now scrutinising BER reports. Photo: Stock Image\/Getty\/Maskot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5ed090c1-352c-432c-8dbe-baf3d4deffd6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">House-hunters are now scrutinising BER reports. Photo: Stock Image\/Getty\/Maskot<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s a reason late spring is the traditional peak of the annual property-selling season \u2013 well-established gardens are starting to bloom and homes look better in sunnier weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But sellers of older properties that rely on heating oil for central heating and hot water may attract lower-than-expected prices in the months ahead, as house-hunters become increasingly spooked by the record-high kerosene prices and intermittent supply shortages sparked by the US war on Iran and the resulting blockade in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prices of oil-fired properties will struggle as cost of filling the tank rises to hit a 30-year high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,6188,61,11829,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-394442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gabrielle-monaghan","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}