Finance Bill was centred around suite of measures to stimulate housing supply including a VAT cut on apartment sales. Photograph: iStock

The new reduced 9 per cent VAT rate on apartment sales will not apply to housing bodies engaged in forward-purchasing arrangements, creating a price anomaly in the State’s housing market, Grant Thornton Ireland has claimed.

While the sale of completed apartments in a block will benefit from the lower rate, a contract fo

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