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10 Jul '24 |
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Michael O'Flynn: Solving the housing crisis requires new body empowered to clear blockages in system
We are failing a generation of young people who are living at home with their parents, or paying high rents in unsuitable accommodation, and whose hopes of owning their own home diminish by the day.
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10 Jul '24 |
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John McManus: Nama was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fix the property market, and we blew it
As the Government comes forward with yet another fantastical target for homebuilding and pretty much every relevant housing metric heads the wrong way, it is hard to believe that, 14 years ago, it had - Subscribe |
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01 Jul '24 |
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Cathy Sweeney: Almost everyone I know who rents in Ireland is now desperate to find a way out of it
There is no direct correlation between “home” and “ownership” in Germany. Renting is not considered second-best, but a viable alternative, with no stigma attached, all quite at variance with t - Subscribe |
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26 Jun '24 |
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Retention of cap will jeopardise future investment, Hooke & MacDonald says
“It was acceptable when it was at 4 per cent, but once it changed to 2 per cent, overnight the whole equation changed,” Ken MacDonald says, arguing that the cap is proving to be damaging to invest - Subscribe |
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26 Jun '24 |
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Savills urges easing of rental caps in next budget to arrest sharp decline in construction
It said the private rented sector has experienced a “dramatic downturn” in recent years, which it attributed primarily to “government interventions” such as rental caps, combined with rising i - Subscribe |
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26 Jun '24 |
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Three-bed semidetached house in Coolock priced at €475,000 is deemed “affordable”
Even in this over-heated market, those earning more than €100,000 surely do not need this leg up, particularly when they could buy a similar non-subsidised house in the same area for less and retain - Subscribe |
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06 Jun '24 |
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Paul McNieve: Why office tenants aren’t seeing big property price drops
There were suggestions the developer Harry Hyams was benefiting by keeping the building vacant, as the capital value based on the theoretical market rent was rising faster than if he agreed a letting. - Subscribe |
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06 Jun '24 |
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Fintan O'Toole: There’s one fundamental reason why we have a housing crisis
If the State builds houses, it has assets. If it doesn’t, it forks out more and more money to private landlords to put people up in unsuitable and unstable conditions. So obviously we weren’t goin - Subscribe |
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06 Jun '24 |
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Michael McDowell: What’s the biggest problem of the housing crisis? It’s the Department of Housing
That system has actually led to de-zoning of development lands in places such as Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. Local authority members are now strictly controlled in their powers to decide on county and cit - Subscribe |
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05 Jun '24 |
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Eilis O’Hanlon: What is so wrong with taking money from developers?
It’s almost like the good old days, when the mere mention of the words “brown envelope” were enough to have anyone who uttered them on the airwaves hailed as a great wit on a par with Oscar Wild - Subscribe |
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22 May '24 |
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Colm Lauder: Ireland needs to get real on need for private investments in social housing
Watchers of the Irish housing market will see parallels in the situation here with the criticisms levelled by a Westminster parliamentary committee at the UK government’s current approach to meeting - Subscribe |
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22 May '24 |
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Ireland is not a country where house prices are meant to fall
Ireland is roughly two-thirds homeowners, one-third renters. Of that home-owning group, their house is by far their most valuable asset.
Figures published recently by a Central Bank researcher foun - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
09 May '24 |
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Inside Business podcast: Does Dublin have a problem with vacant offices?
In part one John McCartney, Director of Research at BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland, discusses a significant surge in Dublin’s office vacancies. In part two economics columnist Cliff Taylor looks at - Subscribe |
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08 May '24 |
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Rent caps ‘impeding’ Ireland’s ability to attract property investment
Speaking at the Glenveagh AGM Stephen Garvey, the property developer’s chief executive, questioned whether the caps were the having the desired effect - Subscribe |
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08 May '24 |
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In today’s Ireland, the rich live in houses that were built for the poor
Quite apart from the societal effect of pushing poor people out of their old neighbourhoods, funnelling so much money via mortgages into housing has reversed the inventive structure of our economy. - Subscribe |
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22 Apr '24 |
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David McWilliams: One sector of Ireland endures housing as a crippling monthly cost while another enjoys it as an appreciating asset
If many Irish first-time buyers – once Bertie’s Fusiliers – are locked out of the house party, the housing issue could be converting them from potential supporters to potential enemies of the ce - Subscribe |
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06 Apr '24 |
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Mark Keenan: Less than one-third of all new homes built last year were made available to ‘regular’ buyers
Government will expect an upbeat reception to data showing a decent uptick in new-home completions as outlined by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). It reports a 10pc rise in Irish new-home output - Subscribe |
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03 Apr '24 |
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Response to David McWilliams from Dublin Democratic Planning Association: "I do not know where his data originates, but it does not match ours."
In my lifetime work as an architect, I never heard of judicial review of housing planning decisions until the advent of SHD. Our research shows that these “legal objections” were indeed based on a - Subscribe |
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02 Apr '24 |
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David McWilliams: An entitled minority are giving two fingers to the rest in Ireland’s housing crisis
Restrictive land-use regulations, burdensome building requirements and the reliable flurry of objections from “aggrieved” local residents all serve to constrain the potential supply of housing – - Subscribe |
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29 Mar '24 |
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John Fitzgerald: Ireland’s system of rent regulation stifles expansion of accommodation supply
There is very limited access to bank funding to support a builder expanding activity – they have to put up a lot of the capital themselves, rather than relying heavily on borrowing. This could be go - Subscribe |
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