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13 Aug '25 |
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Irish house building activity shrinks for third month in row as confidence dips, AIB report suggests
The bank’s latest purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for the construction sector suggests that the sluggishness observed in the first half of 2025 has continued into the second.
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© The Irish Times |
25 Jul '25 |
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New dwelling completions up 35% in second quarter, CSO data shows
A spokesman for Bank of Ireland’s economic research unit said the “disappointing” out-turn in 2024 was primarily due to “volatile, lumpy apartment completions figures”, which bounced back in - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
16 Jul '25 |
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Construction firm sues for €7.4m over alleged defects in glazing to Exo Building in Dublin’s Point village
Bennett (Construction) Ltd has brought proceedings against Spanish firm Tvitec System Glass SL and its Irish subsidiary subcontractor, Technical Envelope Facades (TEF) Ltd, formerly Tvitec System Irel - Subscribe |
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16 Jul '25 |
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Housing targets to be missed this year and next, says ESRI
The ESRI does “not foresee any major uptick in 2025 and 2026 in housing supply”, currently forecasting 33,000 units in 2025 and 37,000 units in 2026, which would be well below Government targets o - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
08 Jul '25 |
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AIB: Level of homebuilding falls for second successive month in June, new data shows
The bank’s latest PMI report – effectively a pulse check of the sector – shows the rate of decline in home building in the month was modest, but the fastest in almost 18 months. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
21 Jun '25 |
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Residential construction fell 10% in first quarter of 2025 compared with last year, says CSO
Dublin faces a second consecutive year of declining apartment completions, with the numbers built this year expected to be 40 per cent down on the 2023 peak, according to JLL's Dublin Living Market Re - Subscribe |
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30 May '25 |
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542 new homes to be built on former St Teresa's Gardens site
The development, being built by John Paul Construction, will have 233 one-bedroom apartments, 265 two-bedroom apartments and 44 three-bedroom apartments. "It demonstrates our ability to deliver housin - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
09 May '25 |
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‘Thousands’ of new homes delayed due to electricity access
The slowdown in power-grid connections comes despite a big Government push to escalate housing output this year, after new home deliveries fell in 2024. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
22 Feb '25 |
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Department of Finance: Doubt cast over accuracy of commencement notices as guide to housing delivery, says Department of Finance
In a monthly housing update noting that 30,330 new homes were completed last year, 6.7 per cent lower than 2023 and 9.3 per cent lower than target, this was largely driven by a “large drop” in apa - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
16 Jan '25 |
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Housing commencements surge to over 60,000 in 2024
Commencement notices for the construction of 60,243 new homes were received by the Building Control Management System (BCMS) in 2024. That represented an 84 per cent increase on the 32,801 recorded in - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
07 Jan '25 |
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Rate of home-building set to slow this year
Construction Information Services (CIS) calculates that work had started on 55,000 new homes in the Republic by the end of September last year, prompted by State incentives. But ending the waiver for - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
12 Dec '24 |
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BPFI warns that house building has stalled
“The rate of increase in housing supply seems to have stalled in 2024 unless there is a significant level of completions in the last quarter of the year, and still remains below requirements. The co - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
30 Oct '24 |
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Minister for Housing ‘angry’ at rogue developers but has no plans to pursue them
“I have to say I’m pretty angry – a lot of the developments, we know who built them. The statute of limitations for many of them has ran out. In many instances, companies have folded and set bac - Subscribe |
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27 Sep '24 |
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Zoned land without utilities cannot solve housing problem: Construction Industry Federation
Hubert Fitzpatrick believes the sector can meet the challenge of building vital infrastructure and 60,000 homes a year only if it has certainty and funding - Subscribe |
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14 Aug '24 |
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Housing target of 33,450 new homes this year in doubt as pace of completions falls
The latest Construction PMI data tracking the sector shows house-building activity increased for the fifth consecutive month in July, and at a solid pace that was the fastest since April. However - Subscribe |
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© RTE |
16 Jul '24 |
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Regulator overseeing building construction to be set up
The Buildings Standards Regulatory Authority will have powers of inspection, enforcement and will have a range of sanctions available to it. The body will also have oversight of the marketing and use - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
09 Jul '24 |
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Construction activity contracts but housing output remains on upward curve
BNP Paribas’s latest index for the construction sector here fell to 47.5 in June from 49.8 the previous month. A score below 50 signifies a contraction in activity. The reversal was linked to a “r - Subscribe |
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08 Jul '24 |
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Housing targets are going to be raised - here’s what they mean for developers
The current target, set as part of Housing for All in 2021, is to build an average of 33,000 homes a year over the ten-year period to 2030
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© The Irish Times |
03 Jul '24 |
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Dublin is second most expensive city in Europe to build apartments
The survey of construction costs, compiled by the SCSI and Trinity College Dublin, found the cost of building an apartment in Dublin was €2,363 per square metre, just over €300 higher than the ave - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
20 Jun '24 |
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Paul McNeive spoke with Kevin Hollingsworth about the need for more building inspections
Mr Hollingsworth highlights that many local authorities are barely meeting a very low target of inspecting 12pc of new buildings. Mayo and Sligo failed to meet even that level in 2022, but Meath and K - Subscribe |
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