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10 Aug '25 |
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David McWilliams: An answer to Ireland’s housing crisis is right behind us
Yimbyism: in North America, families taking the housing crisis into their own hands and building in their gardens, so why not here? - Subscribe |
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24 Jul '25 |
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John McManus: We need to confront the reality that the housing shortage can’t be solved
The correct but pretty much politically impossible thing to do is to level with the electorate that fixing the problem is going to take far longer than anyone is prepared to admit. And it will probabl - Subscribe |
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21 Jul '25 |
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David McWilliams: This is what we need to do in Ireland if we want stable, affordable house prices
The data cannot be emoted away. Ireland has a capacity problem. This is not the fault of immigrants who are given visas, but without a rapidly expanding supply of houses, the number of newcomers means - Subscribe |
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16 Jul '25 |
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Plenty of people will happily live in a smaller, darker unit if the price is right
For those on the sharp end of this row, it is not just about apartment sizes; it’s about whether the “relaxing of restrictions” will make more homes of any size available and whether they will a - Subscribe |
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14 Jul '25 |
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‘We should be making homes, not units’: Smaller apartments plan could lead to more planning delays and few savings, experts warn
“I think the risk here now is developers will all revalue their sites on the basis of fitting more studios which are much more lucrative. That then increases the site value, and it stops anything el - Subscribe |
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09 Jul '25 |
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Ken McDonald: The institutional investors we need have withdrawn from the Irish housing market
Funding by the Government for the different typologies of housing needed in the public sector is an absolute necessity and must continue. It is such a pity that funding for the private sector is being - Subscribe |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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