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19 Aug '26 |
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Mortgage interest rates up slightly but dip below euro zone average
Lenders sanctioned €1.1 billion in new mortgage loans in June, up 13 per cent on the May number and the highest figure so far this year. The figure is 8.5 per cent ahead of the €996 million in new - Subscribe |
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19 Aug '26 |
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‘We offered them free to the State’: 29 homes built without permission to be razed
Nor was the situation made better by the “almost unbelievable chutzpah” of the developers who even now claimed “innocent mistake” even though they ignored or deflected warning letters and had - Subscribe |
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19 Aug '26 |
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Workday seeks to sublet a fifth of the space in its new Dublin 2 office block
At the time, news of the transaction’s completion was regarded as a significant vote of confidence in the Dublin office market, which faced lower letting activity levels for several years following - Subscribe |
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19 Aug '26 |
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Dublin’s empty offices: White elephants and grey spaces in the ‘shadow market’
Patricia Ward, a director with TWM: “I don’t like to use the word stranded because it’s my job to make sure nothing is stranded and to find a home for everything, no matter how challenged it mig - Subscribe |
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19 Aug '26 |
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‘Golden opportunity for the council’: Locals oppose rezoning of open space in Clondalkin
Residents and politicians have appealed to South Dublin County Council (SDCC) to keep land owned by the “Coldcut Club” zoned as open space in advance of a meeting to change the local development p - Subscribe |
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19 Aug '26 |
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IPAV. wants the purchase of second-hand homes by first-time buyers exempt to be exempt from Stamp duty
With a shedsit load of chutzpah and no sense of irony, lobbyists’ Irish Institutional Property’s Budget 2027 submission had eight “asks”, one of which was – quite understandably – for “t - Subscribe |
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19 Aug '26 |
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Improved Ber rating can boost home value, notes fresh analysis
This average increase is as high as 4.7 per cent in rural areas across the State, although it falls to just 1.7 per cent in urban areas of Dublin, according to analysis by the Sustainable Energy Autho - Subscribe |
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19 Aug '26 |
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Tony Bloom quietly bankrolls Star Stone Property Group’s four-year buying spree
Bloom has advanced funds to the firm across 19 deals since 2022. Between 2022 and 2024, he advanced a total of €4.5 million across eight loans for Dublin properties on Manor Street, Upper Dorset Str - Subscribe |
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07 Aug '26 |
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Westbury owners, John and Bernadette Gallagher, get green light for Temple Chambers office redevelopment on Burlington Road
Dublin City Council has approved the plans submitted by Crownway Investments Unlimited Company, which is ultimately owned by an Isle of Man-based entity of the same name. - Subscribe |
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06 Aug '26 |
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Plan for new town at Dunsink ‘requires €7.3bn water investment’ to proceed
Uisce Éireann said the vast housing scheme could only be accommodated once the €6-billion project to pipe water from the river Shannon to Dublin and the €1.3-billion Greater Dublin Drainage Proje - Subscribe |
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04 Aug '26 |
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Hundreds object to Fingal County Council's Dunsink Urban Area Plan
Hundreds of residents of the existing suburbs have made submissions to the council opposing the plans, in part or in their entirety, with concerns around increased traffic, height and density, the pot - Subscribe |
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03 Aug '26 |
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Dublin industrial rents up 2pc: CBRE Q2 2026 report
DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE >>> Q2 take-up of 55,831 sq m; H1 at 95,288 sq m, 24% below the 10-year H1 average. Prime rents rose 2% to €156.10 psm (€14.50 psf), underpinned by a cluster of deal evid - Subscribe |
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02 Aug '26 |
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Cliff Taylor: Everyone agrees Irish house prices are overvalued. We’re in risky territory
There are also now 46 different tax measures aimed at increasing supply and helping buyers, renters and landlords.
Add in the cost of tax incentives and support for State financing agencies and Ire - Subscribe |
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01 Aug '26 |
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DEAL: ChatGPT maker OpenAI selects Dublin docklands offices for new EU hub
OpenAI announced on Monday that it will take on the lease at Iput’s 8,175.5sq m Tropical Fruit Warehouse scheme on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay. Emma Redmond, head of OpenAI Ireland, in a statement. - Subscribe |
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01 Aug '26 |
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Upgrading a home’s Ber rating can add €67,000 to asking price, new Central Bank research indicates
In a report assessing the so-called energy efficiency premium, researchers found that a single grade increase in the property’s Ber rating was associated with a listed price increase of 1.6 per cent - Subscribe |
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01 Aug '26 |
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Business First-time buyers with two incomes still priced out of market, SCSI study finds
Emer Byrne, vice-president of the SCSI: “The pattern agents are seeing is a persistent divergence between income growth and property values, as the marginal gains in purchasing power are offset by p - Subscribe |
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01 Aug '26 |
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Green light for Raglan Townhouse hotel on Baggot Street despite objections
The council has granted planning permission to The Raglan Townhouse Hotel Ltd for a 78-bedroom hotel at 46, 48 and 52-54 Baggot Street Upper (the latter property formerly an AIB branch), and 46, 48, 5 - Subscribe |
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01 Aug '26 |
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The Irish Times view on the housing market: squeeze on buyers tightens
The Government also needs to analyse the vast number of supply-side schemes on which billions of euro are being spent to see which are working and which are not. Capacity increases in local authoritie - Subscribe |
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01 Aug '26 |
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College Green building revaluations help lift Clarendon’s Irish portfolio to €147m
It sold the Churchtown-based Nutgrove Retail Centre, south Dublin, which it had acquired in 2015 as part of a €12.8 million deal that included the mixed-use Beacon South Quarter in nearby Sandyford. - Subscribe |
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01 Aug '26 |
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Permission granted for new five-star hotel at Deer Park in Howth
Tetrarch Capital has secured permission for the demolition and redevelopment of the Deer Park Hotel in Howth after its plan for the site was reconsidered by An Coimisiún Pleanála following a judicia - Subscribe |
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