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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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© Business Post |
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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© Business Post |
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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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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© The Irish Times |
22 Aug '25 |
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154 vacant pubs earmarked for conversion into housing since need for planning permission dropped
In a statement, Minister for Housing James Browne said planning exemptions played “a vital role in unlocking the potential of vacant commercial buildings”.
He added: “I feel very strongly abo - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
11 Aug '25 |
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Few ‘quick wins’ available on housing, says Ires Reit chief
Eddie Byrne, who has helmed Ireland’s largest private residential landlord since last year, said the changes to the RPZ system unveiled in June will take months to translate into more private invest - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
16 Jul '25 |
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HSE under pressure as 172 of its properties lie vacant amid accommodation crisis
The HSE has 172 vacant properties across the country, but cannot say how long they have been unused, it emerged yesterday. It said 142 of these vacant assets surplus to requirements across 102 unique - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
09 Jul '25 |
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Central Bank ‘surprised’ by lack of progress in building homes
We have seen some reallocation of labour within the construction sector to housing. There is probably limited scope to see much more of this reallocation going forward, which is why productivity is so - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
09 Jul '25 |
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John McCartney: Help to Buy is seen as free money but it just results in higher house prices and more tax
Help to Buy also funds more expensive homes. The PBO established that 63 per cent of claims relate to properties whose prices exceed the national average. Meanwhile the Central Bank found that Help to - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
01 Jul '25 |
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The ‘emotional toll’ of buying a home in Ireland: ‘split’ deals and queueing for houses already sold
I lost count of how many emails, phone calls and, most of all, how much energy I poured into conversations with estate agents, desperately trying to secure a place in competitive launch queues. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
20 Jun '25 |
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Rent pressure zone changes will be painful for tenants, Central Bank warns
The reforms are likely to be positive “in terms of the level of supply you would expect to see from the PRS the social costs and the pain felt by households is not even, due to the housing crisis", - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
14 Jun '25 |
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One in five people in the Republic looking to either buy or rent a house, says BPFI
Almost one in five consumers in the Republic say they are looking to either rent or buy a property, the second highest rate in Europe, according to Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI). - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
12 Jun '25 |
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Inside Business Podcast: Will rent reform make building apartments viable?
Conall Mac Coille, chief economist at Bank of Ireland, joins Cliff Taylor and Ciaran Hancock to talk about whether changes to rules for landlords and tenants help bring investment to Ireland - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
29 May '25 |
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Minister insists no ‘free pass’ for builders who get planning permission extensions
The measure is a bid to activate developments such as large-scale apartments that might otherwise go beyond their permission timeline and lapse. “I’d expect developers here to act in good faith. I - Subscribe |
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© The Property Week |
12 May '25 |
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Ronan O'Reilly of NewKey Homes tweets his plan for fixing the property market in 100 days
I’d aim to fix it in 60.
The other 40? I’d just answer the phone.
We don’t need more panels or position papers — we need people who can pull the trigger.
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© Irish Independent |
02 May '25 |
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Letters: Ministers have historically failed the people when it comes to building houses
These policies include transferring public land to developers, bypassing local planning approvals and encouraging international investment; additionally, policies to address vacancy and improve the - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
01 May '25 |
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What will the Housing Activation Office do?
A field full of houses, and a family with no home, all in the same local authority area. Are we to believe a Housing Activation Office might solve it?
The Housing Commission believed it would help. - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
23 Apr '25 |
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15 or 20 ways of building houses’: Ciaran Mullooly’s EU vision for fixing Ireland’s housing crisis
Carol Tallon meets Ciaran Mullooly MEP, the newly appointed vice-chair of the EU Special Committee on Housing to break down the EU’s likely crisis response - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
17 Apr '25 |
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Officials warned of ‘uncertainty’ in housing completions outlook
New information has come to light on disputed building forecasts in files showing housing officials believed the target of 40,000 new homes would not be met until 2025, a year later than Government cl - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
17 Apr '25 |
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Jack Chambers criticises people who object to housing on basis it affects their ‘area’s character’
Jack Chambers, Minister for Public Expenditure and Infrastructure, said there were countless examples across the country where the broader public good was being frustrated by objections that were nebu - Subscribe |
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