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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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© The Irish Times |
17 Apr '25 |
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Buying a house with a life interest, whereby someone is already living in it, is a risk but it can pay off
“If the life tenant does not survive long after the purchase, it will have worked out well for the purchaser. If the life tenant lives to be Ireland’s oldest lady, you might not have done so well, - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
14 Apr '25 |
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Housing Minister James Browne: ‘If we don’t get this right over the next four to seven months, we’re going to be in serious, serious trouble’
How will the revised National Planning Framework (NPF) help achieve the new housing targets? It recognises we need 54,000 new homes per year out to 2040, and you can zone for 50 per cent on top of tha - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
14 Apr '25 |
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Una Mullally – No grand designs: Why are so many new buildings in Dublin ugly?
The vast majority of new housing developments in Dublin city are objectively terrible. Irish apartments are already mostly awful. Many have thin walls, featureless corridors, unimaginative design, ins - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
10 Apr '25 |
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DEAL: New sign ups at Frascati Centre in Blackrock
The Warehouse Gym, Homecare Medical and two others agree deals for total of 3,716sq m across three floors at south Dublin scheme. H4ceeeeeeandled by Anna Gilmartin and Amanda Dzerve at Cushman & Wakef - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
26 Mar '25 |
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Michael McDowell: No European city would tolerate the decay and dereliction visible in Dublin
We need statutory agencies with effective and speedy powers to compulsorily purchase land which is or can be serviced near urban centres so that it can be developed under long building leases as affor - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
17 Mar '25 |
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As many as 40,000 retail premises could be converted into homes with right incentives, lobby group says
The abolition of capital gains tax (CGT) on the sale of retail premises could lead to 20,000 of these being converted into housing, it has been claimed. In addition extending the vacant property refur - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
17 Mar '25 |
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Coalition’s housing solutions warrant a degree of cynicism
Glenveagh chief executive Stephen Garvey: “You need ways of controlling costs,” he said. “You need capacity, which is land, services and infrastructure. And you need capital.” Deliver those th - Subscribe |
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