© The Irish Times |
10 Mar '24 |
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Wealthy Chinese buyers snapping up south Dublin homes ‘sight unseen’
Guangqian Yu, owner of buyer’s agency Vanke Ireland says his clients, in addition to buying homes, might buy two investment properties to rent out, usually in the south inner city, Grand Canal Dock - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
09 Mar '24 |
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Five hundred affordable homes to be made available across Fingal
Fingal County Council will bring a further 492 homes to market over the next eight weeks in Mulhuddart, Donabate, Hollystown, Rush, Balgriffin, Lusk and Swords.
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07 Mar '24 |
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Irish Life and Hines Real Estate tell planning hearing Metrolink tunnel will hit building basements
Solicitors argued that TII’s reports should be scrapped as they had been done using “ghost buildings”. One of these buildings was demolished four years ago and one was demolished 11 years ago. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
07 Mar '24 |
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Multinationals raising ‘significant concerns’ around housing in Ireland, ESRI says
ESRI research professor Kieran McQuinn said house prices are going to continue to rise because although supply levels are increasing, they remain below the levels needed to meet not just natural deman - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
27 Feb '24 |
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What's the true cost of buying an apartment, rather than a house?
Modern apartment life – a staple of existence in continental European cities such as Vienna and Paris since the second half of the 19th century – is a relatively recent phenomenon in Ireland. Here - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
23 Feb '24 |
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Governments used to boast about higher house prices - not anymore
There was a time when governments would take credit for rising house prices or regained “momentum” in the housing market like what we are currently seeing in the Irish market. Increasing property - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
20 Feb '24 |
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Should you buy a new or second-hand home?
Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) member Val O’Brien: “There was more space, but sometimes less thought given to orientation. It was built to face the road, full stop.” - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
09 Jan '24 |
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Sinn Féin goal of cutting average house prices to €300,000 in Dublin would be ‘disastrous’ - O’Brien
In a letter to be sent to Sinn Féin housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin on Monday, Mr O’Brien will suggest that such a fall in property prices would “set back the residential sector by a decade to 20 - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
09 Jan '24 |
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Cantillon: State schemes fanning house price inflation
The Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) highlights the robust level of mortgage activity still going on in the Irish market in its latest monthly snapshot of approvals. The lobby group’s - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
09 Jan '24 |
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Surge in numbers using State equity scheme to buy a home
New figures show that 3,200 buyers have been approved and received First Home scheme eligibility certs since it was launched in July 2022.
Some 1,255 homes have been bought using the scheme so far. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
03 Jan '24 |
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Inside Business podcast: ‘several more years before we see the quantity of houses we need’
Managing Director of Residential & Advisory at Sherry Fitzgerald, Marian Finnegan, gives her expert view. - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
30 Dec '23 |
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ESRI: We need to build 50,000 homes per year to meet demand
The government will be advised to increase its housing targets significantly from the 31,000 expected to be built this year, but minister admits there is not enough capacity - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
30 Dec '23 |
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin says it will be ‘number of years’ before 40,000 homes per year built
“The pipeline is strong on social housing, strong on a number of fronts. But we have to keep on looking at ways to accelerate house building and that relates to capacity within the housing industry, - Subscribe |
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© Irish Examiner |
17 Dec '23 |
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IMF warns housing targets would need to double to meet EU averages
The IMF said there are a range of issues contributing to the housing supply gap including; the complex and slow planning permission system, the constrained viability of high density housing, and the c - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
08 Dec '23 |
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Paul McNeive: Digitalisation will bring conveyancing into the modern era, finally
The journey towards digitising the conveyancing of residential and commercial property has taken a step forward as The Law Society’s conditions of sale have been amended to provide for digital contr - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
01 Dec '23 |
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The property market is changing but 13 years after its inception, the Price Register is still unreliable
Neither journalists nor Government can function properly without the ready and regular availability of clear, impartial and accurate sectoral data. That tenet is as true for media coverage of the prop - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
26 Nov '23 |
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Where have Ireland’s 200,000 vacant homes gone? Just 3,000 are liable for the new tax
The figures entirely overestimated the level of permanent vacancy. About 62,000 were holiday homes and therefore did not qualify. But even the majority of the remaining 183,000 non-holiday homes were - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
23 Nov '23 |
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Paul McNeive: Tax incentives for senior living can ease both the nursing homes crisis and Ireland’s housing crunch
I spoke with CBRE experts Cormac Megannety, head of healthcare, and Maureen Bayley, senior director, and they told me that while there is “consternation” in the sector, there is a gap in the marke - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
22 Nov '23 |
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Should you try to buy, or keep renting?
According to the latest CSO figures, while Dublin prices might be receding outside the capital they’re up 4 per cent. This is not welcome news for buyers already staring down ten consecutive ECB rat - Subscribe |
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© Irish Examiner |
21 Nov '23 |
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BPFI: Average income of first-time buyers hits new record high
The average income of a first-time buyer household has grown to a record high of €82,000 while at the same time their average mortgage drawdown has increased by €20,000 to €270,000, a new report - Subscribe |
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