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13 Sep '26 |
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Sinéad O'Sullivan: All the property schemes do one thing. It’s not help buyers
This is the surcharge that the State and its taxpayers pay, over and over, because it never built or provided any underlying assets itself.
Ireland’s Government, unable to govern, chooses to subs - Subscribe |
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06 Sep '26 |
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The Irish Times view on the ESRI housing report: house prices alarmingly overvalued
There are issues to be tackled across the board – in social housing, in developing affordable properties, in providing options for those who want to trade down and so on. But one of the crunch issue - Subscribe |
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02 Sep '26 |
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David Jelly of Property Bridges: Irish builders make modest profits and face obstacles at every turn – that needs to change if we want more housing
If we are going to close that gap, we need to understand who actually builds our homes. Recent research by KPMG identified almost 900 active housebuilders across Ireland. Nine out of 10 deliver fewe - Subscribe |
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20 Aug '26 |
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Inside Business Podcast How many new homes does Ireland really need?
To help answer that question Ciaran Hancock is joined by Marian Finnegan, chief executive of Sherry Fitzgerald, Ireland’s largest estate agent, and John McCartney, a property economics lecturer in T - 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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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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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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19 Feb '26 |
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Ireland ‘back on radar’ for international housing investors, says Ires Reit boss
Eddie Byrne, Ires Reit CEO: Ireland is “back on the radar” for foreign sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies looking to invest in residential properties because of rental reforms coming i - Subscribe |
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19 Feb '26 |
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New Homes selling agents predictions for 2026
Ivan Gaine, Sherry FitzGerald; Sarah Jane Kearney, DNG; Sarah Murray, Savills New Homes; Frank McSharry, Lisney Sotheby’s; David Lawlor, Hooke & MacDonald; Will Coonan, Coonan Property - Subscribe |
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13 Feb '26 |
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Sherry FitzGerald chief: ‘For 30 years ... all the government has focused on is first-time buyers’
“You shouldn’t be nervous if you’re investing €500,000 or more in a property that the bid against is real or not. The industry has to be transparent as possible.”
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11 Feb '26 |
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Property roulette? A game loaded in favour of the estate-agent agenda
A game where the estate agent spins the wheel in one direction while seeking the best property for a buyer, and then spins a ball in the opposite direction to get the highest price for the seller. - Subscribe |
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03 Dec '25 |
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John Moran of JLL Housing is now the cornerstone of Ireland’s real estate market
his deliberate policy shift recognises that solving Ireland’s housing crisis depends on mobilising global capital and creating long-term certainty for investors rather than relying solely on public - Subscribe |
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03 Dec '25 |
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What does the housing market have in store in 2026? Property experts weigh in
Marian Finnegan ... Orla McMorrow ... Joanne Geary ... Stephen Day ... Ray Palmer-Smith ... Rose Lyle ... Gerard O’Toole ... Genevieve McGuirk ... - Subscribe |
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06 Oct '25 |
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Loracan Sirr: If James Browne wants to get ‘radical’ about housing, here are five things he must do
1 Ban lobbyists 2 Bring in a residency requirement 3 Introduce a new legal definition of “rent” 4 Count new bed spaces, not just new homes 5 Hold a housing referendum - Subscribe |
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04 Sep '25 |
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Cantillon: Foxrock decision shows Nimbys are not the only problem when building housing
In a two-storey neighbourhood, that Tower of Babel could stretch high into the Foxrock sky. One suspects there might be no shortage of objections, and even judicial review, in that case. - Subscribe |
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24 Aug '25 |
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David McWilliams: Houses are being built in Ireland, so why can’t ordinary people buy them?
What chance does a young buyer have when they are competing in the market against their own Government? Prices are rising because the biggest buyer in the market is pushing those prices up. - Subscribe |
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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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