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21 Sep '20 |
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Long-term remote working could be the ruin of city centre economies and FDI: Kellie O'Brien, Savills
I work for Savills - one of Ireland's largest property advisors - as an associate director in its office-leasing team. Our success is contingent on demand from office occupiers for space.
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18 Sep '20 |
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Hooke & MacDonald property management team positions
Hooke & MacDonald have openings for experienced, motivated people in their successful and expanding property management (tenancy) team. Hooke & MacDonald offers employees a professional and fr
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08 Sep '20 |
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Selling off homes has hurt State's ability to provide social housing
Prof Michelle Norris told the Dublin Economics Workshop that Ireland needs to learn lessons from other small countries, particularly Austria and Denmark, which provide much more social housing at a fr - Subscribe |
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08 Sep '20 |
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Ronan Lyons says State needs to build 1.4m extra homes by 2050 to meet demand
“The more homes that are available the more prices fall... We’ll need something like 3.1 million dwellings by 2050” to accommodate this increase, he told the annual conference of the Dublin Econ - Subscribe |
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07 Sep '20 |
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Building to a crisis: Fixing the Irish housing model
Assistant professor of architecture at UCD Orla Hegarty agrees that what is needed is a much more strategic focus on affordable housing.
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04 Sep '20 |
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Does property make sense as a pension punt?
Aengus Burns is a partner at Grant Thornton: “It tends to be more of a play on yield, so it’s probably more suited to high yield, high return investments than investments where you are looking for - Subscribe |
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31 Aug '20 |
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Daniel O'Connor, JLL: Politicians need to ignore anti-hotel sentiment
If our leaders do not want to be haunted by past errors, they must resist any new hotel development planning restrictions coming into force in the final months of 2020 - Subscribe |
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31 Aug '20 |
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New State body required to build homes and tackle housing crisis
The emphasis has to switch to capital spending – building more houses. The most effective way to do this is to establish a national building authority, employing specialised staff, with a singular o - Subscribe |
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28 Aug '20 |
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Time to add morality to the profit motive when building: Damian Flanagan, property investor
A “moral” building was one that made a positive contribution to society and human beings as a whole, not one simply designed to extract as much profit as possible from the people living in them. - Subscribe |
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24 Aug '20 |
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Bill Nowlan: 'Turnkey’ approach is ideal for providing high volumes of houses at affordable prices
"Some commentators are attributing the shortfall in supply to lack of skilled labour. I do not agree. The problem lies in the procurement and funding structures currently in the industry. Ireland has - Subscribe |
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21 Aug '20 |
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Claim that 47,000 new homes needed a year isn’t credible
The one thing the report neatly eschews is any discussion of land values and why the costs of development can vary so greatly across the State. The only valid explanation for why this is much costlier - Subscribe |
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20 Aug '20 |
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Paul McNeive: Don't write off 2020 - there are still property deals to be done
You should be reconsidering the areas you are in, and what you could be doing differently. In March, I advised firms to be getting close to the insolvency practitioners, who, sadly, will become a sour - Subscribe |
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16 Aug '20 |
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Pat Davitt: Valuing property before, during and after Covid-19
Some valuers have downgraded valuations during the coronavirus lockdown. Are they correct? - Subscribe |
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06 Aug '20 |
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Quintain directors on Covid-19, a scrapped IPO and plans for Dublin’s Cherrywood
“We think the market is going to be remarkably resilient,” says Byrne (54). He sees the fact that less than 10 per cent of Irish mortgageholders sought payment breaks during the coronavirus crisis - Subscribe |
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05 Aug '20 |
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We must make bold and swift decisions to fix the housing crisis: Hugh Wallace
Currently there is no link between local development plans and national framework plans. More alarmingly, one council's development plan has no regard for the next town, county or district. The number - Subscribe |
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24 Jul '20 |
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Robin Mandal, architect: We are about to build the wrong homes in the wrong places at the wrong price
We have conflated the shortage of housing with creating a system that facilitates the needs of developers. This will not answer the needs of our society. Expecting private developers to provide a publ - Subscribe |
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14 Jul '20 |
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Costs and borrowing rules locking a generation out of home ownership, builder warns
Micheal O’Flynn, chairman and chief executive of the O’Flynn construction group, argued that any Government plan to tackle the Republic’s housing crisis had to take building costs and affordabil - Subscribe |
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06 Jul '20 |
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Mind your language when it comes to housing: Ivan Gaine
There is no panacea, but there should be a collective, collaborative and decipherable range of solutions for different parts of society - Subscribe |
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29 Jun '20 |
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Mark Keenan: No plunge in prices yet, as some pent-up demand keeps market going
While cheaper property prices are a good thing for first time buyers and generally for housing, hopes shouldn't be raised just yet of cheaper homes, as proved by the data contained in this quarter's I - Subscribe |
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28 Jun '20 |
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Elaine Byrne: A referendum on housing is not going to solve the supply crisis
It is reasonable to assume that, after five weeks of marathon talks between the three-way coalition partners, some description would have been provided regarding what exactly this would entail. Nope. - Subscribe |
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26 Jun '20 |
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Paul McNeive: Difficult to believe coalition could deliver on half of proposed policies
It's far more efficient to build new houses to the highest standards than to tie up scarce resources in retrofitting. Build enough houses first, then start retrofitting. - Subscribe |
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