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02 Sep '25 |
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Developers apply for Croí Cónaithe subsidies to build close to 6,000 apartments
The state's scheme to subsidise the construction of apartments for sale has received applications from developers to build close to 6,000 homes this year. The Croí Cónaithe Cities scheme, launched i - Subscribe |
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02 Sep '25 |
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Vacancy rates on Dublin’s high streets fall from ‘double-digit highs’
Since the second quarter of 2023, the vacancy rate on Henry Street has declined from 11.9 per cent to 6.4 per cent, following a number of new store openings. - Subscribe |
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02 Sep '25 |
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Dublin City Council defends housing and zoning targets against minister’s directions
In a move that will come as a blow to some developers banking on the rezoning of their sites, assistant council chief executive Tony Flynn said there was already sufficient capacity in the development - Subscribe |
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02 Sep '25 |
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Hines gets green light for 1,131 apartments at former Holy Cross College, Drumcondra site
The Council has given the green light to Hines partner fund, CWTC Multi-Family ICAV, to construct a 1,131-unit scheme that includes a 13-storey apartment block for the site at Holy Cross College on Cl - Subscribe |
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02 Sep '25 |
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More than 380 new apartments approved for Dublin’s Grand Canal cost-rental and social homes scheme
The 383 apartments will be built by the Land Development Agency (LDA) and Dublin City Council (DCC) in four blocks of up to nine storeys, along with community spaces, a creche and allotments. - Subscribe |
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02 Sep '25 |
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27 The Nicholson at Lansdowne Place in Ballsbridge sells for record-breaking €7.2m
The record for the most valuable transaction in the Irish apartment market until now had been held by another penthouse at Lansdowne Place, 24 The Burbidge, which sold for €7 million in autumn 2023. - Subscribe |
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02 Sep '25 |
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Mart Lane Property Developments refused planning at Mart Lane site, Foxrock
The development, the council said, represented a density of 34.5 units per hectare, which does not adhere to planning guidelines promoting residential density of between 50 and 250 units per hectare. - Subscribe |
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01 Sep '25 |
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Commercial property rents and prices have hit bottom and are set to rise, reveals SCSI sentiment survey
Commercial property agents expect rents and prices to rise for prime office, retail and industrial properties over the next 12 months, according to a sentiment survey by the Society of Chartered Surve - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
01 Sep '25 |
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Housing commencement figures down nearly 80% so far this year
Just 7,384 housing commencement notices were issued by builders in the first seven months of the year.
This is roughly a fifth of the 35,358 notices issued for the same period last year and less th - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
01 Sep '25 |
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Housing commencement figures down nearly 80% so far this year
Just 7,384 housing commencement notices were issued by builders in the first seven months of the year.
This is roughly a fifth of the 35,358 notices issued for the same period last year and less th - Subscribe |
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25 Aug '25 |
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‘Starbucks was too big for somewhere so small’ – the Irish town that rejected US coffee giant
"If you see a Starbucks, you know what you’re going to get,” according to Dalkey cafe's Pepper Laine owner Peter O’Donovan, referring to the good and the bad of the ubiquitous chain that is cele - Subscribe |
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25 Aug '25 |
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Daft: Average monthly rents now twice those of Celtic Tiger peak
Ronan Lyons: The figures in this latest Daft.ie Report show that rents in the open market rose by a further 1.6% in the second quarter of the year. Combined with the increases seen in the previous thr - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
25 Aug '25 |
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Creches empty or converted to housing as developers seek to drop childcare facilities
Parents who say they bought houses on the “understanding” their estate would have a creche are facing long waiting lists for childcare as many promised facilities remain vacant, even in high-deman - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
25 Aug '25 |
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Plan to turn vacant Dublin buildings into housing halted after €3m spend
Dublin City Council paid €3.55 million for a 1990s office block at 14-15 Fitzwilliam Quay on the Dodder river and plans to convert it into 15 apartments. “Ultimately we are using the resources tha - Subscribe |
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24 Aug '25 |
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Colm Lauder: Ireland’s housing mix is a mess that needs to be fixed
Without binding mixed-tenure requirements and stronger policies on geographic balance, there is a clear risk of over-concentration of social housing and emergency accommodation in certain districts, e - Subscribe |
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24 Aug '25 |
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Government’s new ‘mansion tax’ raises just €16m – a fraction of budget day prediction
The government, in a surprise announcement on the last budget day, hiked stamp duty to 6 per cent on homes sold for €1.5 million or above. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
24 Aug '25 |
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John McCartney: Dublin’s office market remains distressed and it’s too early to call a recovery in rents
Office development will slow next year, perhaps allowing vacancy to finally begin receding. However the pace of digestion is likely to be sluggish, and vacancy will be retreating from a starting point - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
24 Aug '25 |
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Latest Irish house price data: depressingly predictable
The headline rate is almost twice the rate at which wages are growing, attesting to the squeeze on would-be buyers, but it’s something we’ve nearly come to expect. “Second-hand price inflation h - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
24 Aug '25 |
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How tech workers earning six-figure salaries are changing the Dublin housing market
“This is a very broad statement,” says Miriam Finn, a Dublin-based estate agent-turned-buyers’ agent who helps house-hunters find properties, “but tech workers are probably one of the only typ - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
24 Aug '25 |
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Dublin City Council issues 300 warning letters over short-stay rentals
A spokesman for the council said on Friday: “To date, since the initiation of the short-term letting legislation in July, 2019, a successful resolution has been achieved in respect of 1,996 cases. T - Subscribe |
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