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© The Irish Times |
06 Aug '26 |
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Plan for new town at Dunsink ‘requires €7.3bn water investment’ to proceed
Uisce Éireann said the vast housing scheme could only be accommodated once the €6-billion project to pipe water from the river Shannon to Dublin and the €1.3-billion Greater Dublin Drainage Proje - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
01 Aug '26 |
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LDA to move beyond cities for sites capable of delivering 200-home schemes
Chief executive John Coleman said the LDA, which has so far focused its development activity on cities and the Greater Dublin Area, needed to branch into the areas further afield where the private mar - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
01 Aug '26 |
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‘The boom is taking off again’: Irish builders at the heart of Europe’s data-centre growth
“Some of these firms have built up the skills and relationships needed to construct these data centres and are following their customers around Europe – and beyond in some cases. It’s a new expo - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
25 Jul '26 |
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A building at Fitzwilliam Quay in Ringsend is the only office to be approved for social housing conversion
More than 500 properties were assessed for their suitability for adaptation, and feasibility studies were prepared for 15 conversion projects. The former Dublin HQ of FleishmanHillard, was bought by t - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
20 Jul '26 |
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Developers seek further tax breaks to boost home building
Irish Institutional Property (IIP) said the current trajectory would only get to the “high 30,000s or low 40,000s new dwellings” a year.
In a budget submission to Minister for Finance Simon Har - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
20 Jul '26 |
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State’s affordable housing agency to sell more homes privately at full market price
The proposed changes to the rules would allow for up to 30 per cent of homes in Land Development Agency (LDA) projects on State land in places with large populations such as Dublin and Cork to be sold - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
01 Dec '25 |
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Hibernia, Cairn and Hines push to rezone south Dublin land for 14,500 new homes
The first was a 28-hectare plot that can deliver up to 2,500 homes in the planned suburb of Adamstown – located south of Lucan in Co Dublin. - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
23 Nov '25 |
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DEAL: Noel Smyth sells Crofton Road, Dún Laoghaire site with permission for 74 rental apartments
Residential property developer Brian M Durkan Ltd is understood to have paid over the €5.25m guide price which solicitor and developer Noel Smyth was seeking for a site close to the waterfront in D - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
19 Nov '25 |
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New apartment design standards to be ‘robustly’ defended amid legal challenge
Four councillors and author Frank McDonald launched judicial review proceedings against the Coalition’s proposed design standards, which critics have described as part of a developer-led race to the - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
18 Nov '25 |
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Applications open for 229 LDA cost-rental apartments in Dublin 22, Cooper Square part of Seven Mills
Cooper Square, which will eventually comprise more than 600 apartments, is being delivered in partnership between the LDA and lead developer Cairn Homes. John Coleman, chief executive of the LDA: - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
12 Nov '25 |
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Paschal Donohoe extends VAT cut on apartment sales to forward-funding deals
The lower rate did not apply to forward-funding arrangements, where investors or housing bodies acquire sites before construction begins and make stage payments during development, which, for VAT purp - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
26 Oct '25 |
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‘Apartments are now viable again’: Second major housebuilder flags building boom in wake of Vat cut
Homebuilder Fitzpatrick and Heavey Homes is planning to heavily invest in apartment building as a direct result of the reduced apartment Vat rate and new planning standards announced by James Browne, - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
23 Oct '25 |
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‘Muted’ rise in new home completions spells trouble for Government housing targets
“After a promising second quarter, there was a muted start to home building in the second half of the year, with only a 4 per cent increase in the number of home completions in Q3 2025,” Trevor Gr - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
22 Oct '25 |
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DEAL: Investor pays €10m to buy 34 apartments in south Dublin development
Xestra Asset Management, the Dublin-based property investment firm headed by Antoine Xavier, has paid €10 million for a portfolio of 34 apartments at the Parkview development at Stepaside in south D - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
16 Oct '25 |
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Land for more than 12,000 homes a year to be zoned in Dublin city
The amount of zoned land is set to be significantly increased, with city councillors asked to approve a strategy to allow for the construction of 12,294 homes a year. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
20 Sep '25 |
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Ikea enters Irish housing market with €73m investment at Rathborne Crossing, Ashtown
The new homes will be built by Castlethorn and will consist of 86 social homes and 83 apartments for sale on the open market.
Dublin City Council will acquire the 86 social homes on completion, wit - Subscribe |
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© RTE |
17 Sep '25 |
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DCC and agencies focusing on houses for first-time buyers
Assistant CEO for Housing at DCC Mick Mulhern said of the 169 new homes launched today at Rathborne Crossing close to Ashtown station, DCC would take 86 of those. "There'll be social houses in one and - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
17 Sep '25 |
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German investor begins €70m redevelopment of Meta’s former Dublin headquarters
Having paid €230 million in 2015 to acquire Meta’s original Dublin headquarters at 4/5 Grand Canal Square, Union Investment has commenced work on a substantial redevelopment of the south docklands - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
12 Sep '25 |
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Global Student Accommodation Group defers €500m investment amid sector uncertainty
Mixed messaging from Government officials on how the purpose-built student accommodation sector (PBSA) will be treated under the new RPZ plans, unveiled in June, “has created additional uncertainty - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
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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