{"id":562127,"date":"2026-07-22T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562127\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:30:09","slug":"leitrim-has-highest-number-of-vacant-homes-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/562127\/","title":{"rendered":"Leitrim has highest number of vacant homes in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co Leitrim has the highest number of vacant homes in the country.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to GeoDirectory&#8217;s residential buildings report, the details of which have been published today.<\/p>\n<p>Data for the report was taken from April to June of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Leitrim&#8217;s total of 11.5 per cent was the highest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Roscommon was also included in the top five, at 9.9 per cent, while Co Longford&#8217;s figure stood at 7.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>All three counties were above the state average of 3.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Connacht&#8217;s total of 9 per cent was the highest of the provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Co Leitrim has the highest number of vacant homes in the country. That&#8217;s according to GeoDirectory&#8217;s residential buildings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3014,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-562127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-homes","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562127","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=562127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}