In total, there are 756 people on the social housing waiting list in Co Roscommon.

Plans call for the construction of a new student housing scheme consisting of 26 apartments.

The figures contained in the Irish Independent/REA Average House Price Index show the national average price of a three bed semi detached is around €308,000.

AMC Developments limited applied to Longford County Council in July for the construction of 42 new homes.

According to figures released by the CSO, Roscommon saw the highest amount of homes sold last year in the region with 944.

It comes as the CSO releases new figures which reveal the amount of housing units being built across the nation per capita.

The report also shows that the 3 counties in the Shannonside region required the lowest average income to purchase a house, as well as some of the lowest rent prices nationally.

The tax will be due on property which is both zoned for housing and serviced.