Housing demand

How Brussels turns its vacant office buildings into housing

Office downsizing after remote work shift has led to boom of projects converting vacant offices into apartments

A year of thoughts on Ireland’s housing crisis

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Care services for most vulnerable not good enough, says Simon Harris

Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil ‘on track’ to strike government deal by January 22nd

Typical price paid for home by first-time buyer up €88,000 on five years ago

Median income of first-time buyers buying a new property is now €90,000, Banking and Payments Federation Ireland report says

The Irish Times view on rising house prices: the warning signs are there

The next government must accept that a new approach is needed if housing really is to be a priority

Average price of Dublin home is now over €600,000

Latest CSO figures described as ‘very depressing but not surprising’ by Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin

Irish Cities in Crisis: A ‘call to arms’ on the challenges of housing a rapidly growing population

A wide-ranging compilation of essays by the Irish Cities 2070 think tank, which is backed by the Irish Academy of Engineering and the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland

Ireland needs a major housing reset and this will discommode many. It has to

Just to keep up with present demand for housing, we require to build a city the size of Waterford every year for decades

Almost 1,000 vie to buy State’s most expensive ‘affordable’ homes

First subsidised houses at Shanganagh Castle in Shankill cost up to €495,000

‘Despite having a roof over my head I still don’t feel safe’

Focus Ireland’s latest Insights report documents how 50 families experienced homelessness

Sinn Féin plan for affordable homes will meet lending requirements, Ó Broin says

Plan ‘would provide banks with the exact same security as the current government schemes do’, says party’s housing spokesman

General election 2024: What are the issues in housing?

Housing is a central issue in this election, from building targets and government supports for prospective house buyers to rising rents and building defects

Cost of refurbishments of boarded-up Dublin council homes to hit €50,000 each

Council chief Richard Shakespeare says ‘not realistic’ to keep borrowing to cover costs

First-time buyers: ‘Should we buy an apartment or a doer-upper?’

We live in a Dublin commuter town and there are not many homes coming up for sale

Cairn Homes asks High Court to quash development refusal of 329 dwellings in Co Wicklow

The developer’s proposal had been given the green light by Wicklow County Council, but this was overturned on appeal

Fine Gael pledges to deliver over 300,000 homes over next six years

Party says it will ensure about 50,000 homes are built each year under €40bn plan

Election housing debate should not be about ‘shouting numbers’, Simon Harris says

Election 2024: Fine Gael leader promises more ‘interventionist’ State on child care and ‘firmer’ migration system

New housing target to be set at average of 50,500 homes a year

Minister for Housing brings revised draft of national planning framework to Coalition leaders for approval

Snapshot analysis: Budget and State spending take focus away from social issues

Respondents reveal a greater concentration on the value for money of Government expenditure than on topics such as the housing shortage and immigration

Snapshot poll: Budget aftermath and Government spending draw most voter attention

Housing remains a key topic as general election looms; immigration falls to its lowest ranking this year

The €500,000 suburban three-bed is now the house at the centre of the property price surge

This kind of house is attracting bids both from those seeking to move and from first-time buyers

Dublin’s O’Connell Street has just one resident left. What the area lacks most is not guards, it is people

Dublin’s north inner city could become one of Europe’s most happening addresses in a reasonably short space of time

Twenty-two apartments in ‘luxury’ D4 development secured for social housing

Co-operative Housing Ireland ‘delighted to deliver 22 much-needed social-rental homes’ to families and individuals at Elmpark Green

What’s happening with house prices?

August was the 12th consecutive month to see an increase in property price inflation, a worrying trend for prospective buyers

Dublin’s Liberties has everything. Except vision, planning, care and attention

It’s difficult to imagine any other European city allowing the development that has blighted the Liberties

Stopgap mortgages remain a bridge too far for Irish banks despite new ICS product

Banks still chastened by the crash are unlikely to offer such financing

Budget will provide six-month sugar rush - but perhaps only incremental change on housing and health

Budget 2025: Will it alter our shaky trajectory on housing? Will it end emergency department overcrowding in hospitals?

Is now the time to buy a new home? Politicians may not provide the answers you need

The arrival of a new government will have little impact on the supply of housing or on its affordability

Higher earning first-time buyers gain most from Help To Buy scheme

Central Bank says scheme, which offers tax rebates of up to €30,000, cost Revenue €938m to the end of 2023

Buying a new home? Keep these 10 tips in mind, from borrowing to build quality

We’ve put together a guide to help you navigate the biggest purchase of your life

Fact check: Are immigration and homelessness figures linked?

Taoiseach appeared to conflate rising homelessness with increased numbers seeking asylum and international protection in weekend interview

Restrictive rent control must be relaxed to bring in funding for new homes

Current regime is proving to be punitive and discouraging for institutional investors

Foxrock home and site with planning for prime residential scheme for €4.5m

Foxrock Villa, a substantial home on Torquay Road, is for sale with approval for four large houses on its grounds

Planning granted for hundreds of homes in Cork on land owned by GAA

Lands on which 319 homes can be built will be sold to offset the costs of redeveloping Páirc Uí Chaoimh

Could granny flats offer a sustainable, €70,000 solution to the housing shortage?

There are about 300 St Stephen’s Greens’ worth of private garden space in Dublin city. Garden offices are allowed, but garden homes are not. This is a missed opportunity

House flippers are a curse, tarting up homes as cheaply as possible and selling for maximum profit

Home improvement TV breathes undeserved confidence into a generation of flippers

If you want to know whether Sinn Féin’s housing policy will work, look at what it achieved in the North

There’s one unifying factor to the party’s entirely different strategies in the North and South: both approaches ultimately aim to secure power to advance a united Ireland

Dermot Bannon’s Super Spaces review: Starchitect lights up the screen like sunlight through a megabucks extension

Television: New series exploring ‘spaces where we work, live, socialise’ occasionally lacks sensitivity in this housing crisis era

Housing shortage: Not making a will leaves thousands of vacant homes in limbo

More than 27,000 properties in the State are vacant because their former residents have died

Can Sinn Féin make a real difference to the housing crisis?

Its plan to increase State spending, instead of incentivising private developers, would be a significant departure

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