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02 Jul '25 |
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Natasha Browne, Saville: Government cannot afford to deliver the homes Ireland needs without big investors
For example, the €14 billion Apple tax windfall would cover little more than a 10th of the cost of the 300,000 units targeted for completion between 2025 and 2030. The Government does not have unlim - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
02 Jul '25 |
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Michael McDowell: Folly of abolishing bedsits only to promote co-living is now becoming clear
Why, oh why, does any planning regulator need power to dezone housing development land in the present circumstances? What local authority has engaged in harmful over-zoning of housing development land - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
01 Jul '25 |
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Rental reforms, investor retreats and the build-to-hold imperative: The housing fix needs more than policy tweaks
The ink is barely dry on the latest housing market rental reform announcement, and the debate is already raging. The government insists it's making the tough calls needed to fix our broken housing sys - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
24 Jun '25 |
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John McCartney: Developers are bluffing when they say lower prices would undermine viability of house building
Rather than striving to boost supply, Government should desist from fanning the flames of demand with subsidies such as Help to Buy and the First Home Scheme. - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
23 Jun '25 |
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Tax breaks ‘not the answer’ to housing crisis, says Ballymore’s Sean Mulryan
There were too many people involved, too many local authorities going in different directions, according to Mulryan. "I think the answer is to get the land zoned, get the infrastructure in and let’s - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
15 Jun '25 |
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John Fitzgerald: The numbers say we need private rental investment to address housing crisis
The experience worldwide with rent controls is that they are good for existing tenants but that, over time, the supply of new apartments dries up as they cannot be financed, given the impact of rent c - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
04 Jun '25 |
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Myles Clarke, CBRE: Government must bring clarity on policy to hit housing targets
Investors are committing capital to support the buildout of rental sectors in cities across Europe but can’t commit in a meaningful way to Ireland’s PRS sector as long as these rental controls rem - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
02 Jun '25 |
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Nicholas Mansergh, lecturer on planning: Ireland is overdependent on apartment development
Housing guidelines should be revised to reflect construction cost realities. One quick way of doing this would be to allow local authorities amend their development plans, so small terrace houses coun - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
29 May '25 |
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Clara Coakley of Interpath: Local developers have key role to play in attracting international investment for housing
We’ve seen what’s possible in delivering stock to the market with the success of our listed housebuilders, like Cairn and Glenveagh, along with privately owned Irish developers having internationa - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
23 May '25 |
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Eoin Burke-Kennedy: Two and a half decades in, the housing crisis is Ireland’s most enduring failure
“The irony is that the last Government scrapped pro-supply policies just as they were beginning to show their effects – with market rents in Dublin largely static in 2023, due to lots of new compl - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
12 May '25 |
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Regulatory uncertainty blocking housing investment, Elkstone warns
While the industry wants the rules loosened, Opposition parties claim they keep already high rents in check. Elkstone’s chief investment officer Karl Rogers: “Rental caps introduced with the inten - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
10 May '25 |
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Minister James Browne has little power to fix the housing crisis. The status quo is in charge
Housing has been an overriding political priority since at least 2016, but at every juncture a conscious decision was made to subcontract responsibility rather than take it on. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
24 Apr '25 |
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Newton Emerson: Downsizing is fine in theory. In reality, it’s rearranging property deckchairs on the Titanic
In the real world, developers are compelled by economics to build three-bedroom semidetached houses. Little else is available to prospective buyers across Ireland, north and south. Regulation pushes d - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
07 Apr '25 |
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Lorcan Sirr: More land, housing at scale and other myths about Ireland’s housing crisis
1. The ‘more land’ myth 2. The ‘housing at scale’ myth 3. The ‘more supply’ myth 4. The ‘planning problem’ myth 5. The ‘We’ve got this’ myth - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
02 Apr '25 |
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John Moran, JLL: Institutional investors can help to bring an end to Ireland’s housing crisis
The Housing Commission has proposed reference rents as a solution for future regulation. I would also echo Ronan Lyons, Michael O’Flynn, and Dermot O’Leary’s response, which argues that such a s - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
01 Apr '25 |
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Myles Clarke, CBRE: Scarcity meets opportunity: Why Ireland’s commercial real estate market stands out
Ireland’s sell to investors in 2025 is simple: limited supply means limitless opportunity amid a global debt deluge - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
27 Mar '25 |
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John McManus: Time to do a Trump on the planning process?
A precedent of sorts was set by the powers the Government granted itself during Covid to restrict civil liberties.
They were grounded legally in the State’s obligation to protect public health. I - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
05 Mar '25 |
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Is the answer to Ireland’s housing crisis more apartments?
Cairn Homes boss Michael Stanley says Ireland has an irrational fear of apartments“I hear it on radio shows, in newspaper articles . . . it’s the greatest piece of misinformation that’s put out - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
23 Feb '25 |
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Eoin O’Malley: Dublin Docklands project can act as a masterplan for Ireland’s housing solution
The government parties are at odds over the suggestion by Taoiseach Micheál Martin that there could be a review of the legislation on Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs), or rent controls.
He suggested the - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
23 Feb '25 |
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Eoin Ó Broin: Moving young people from box room to shed won’t end housing crisis – it will make it worse
The Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025 states that across the six funding programmes for local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency to deliver new homes, there - Subscribe |
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