Housing demand

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

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

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

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

Report estimates it would cost nearly €35bn to build social housing for all those in need

Parliamentary Budget Office calculates there were 115,425 households with an ‘ongoing need’ for permanent, State-supported housing at the end of 2023

Donegal homeowners moving into mobile homes as Government defective bricks scheme kicks in

Severe shortage of rental accommodation on Inishowen peninsula affecting families who want to have their defective homes rebuilt

Buying a home on your own: Here is how to navigate the perils and pitfalls

More and more home buyers are single. Here are the things to watch for if buying solo

House price inflation jumps to 8.2%, new figures show

Latest barometer shows Dublin prices rose an average rate of 8.6% in 12 months to May this year

New building standards watchdog to be set up under plans to be considered by Ministers

Proposals to reform probate and conveyancing and strategy expected to go to Cabinet

What’s happening to Airbnb and holiday lets?

Give me a Crash Course in... Airbnb and changes to the planning system for short-term lets

Solving the housing crisis requires new body empowered to clear blockages in system

Housing Delivery Oversight Executive recommended by Housing Commission would exist for five years and have the power to tackle barriers to housing supply

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 as work on commercial projects fell

Lone Star nears sale of most of Quintain Ireland property assets to TPG

Company among the initial wave of overseas investors to buy here

Renting in Ireland: ‘I’m constantly living with the fear that I can be homeless’

There are about 330,000 properties being rented in the private sector, but no tenant is immune from the possibility of losing the roof over their head

How do we go about buying our first home?

So far we’ve managed to save about half of the 10 per cent deposit we’ll need to buy a small house

More workers may be needed to finish house builds, says banking group

Construction activity has risen sharply in 2024 but ‘increased labour capacity’ may be required to keep delivery of units in line with commencements

Why are more empty religious buildings not being used to house the homeless?

Numbers in religious orders are dwindling - but experts disagree about how big the opportunity to is

McGarrell Reilly pays over €8m for former Siemens site in south Dublin

Developer in off-market deal for Sandyford building with planning in place for high-rise residential scheme

Nearly 50,000 homes receive planning with restriction around bulk buying

Darragh O’Brien hails success of measures aimed at stopping funds or companies bulk-buying housing units

Cash only, please: why you can’t buy some properties if you need a mortgage

When a property goes to market seeking a cash-only buyer, it’s sometimes down to construction, planning and boundary issues

Well-designed apartments with courtyards beside Phoenix Park from €385,000

One- two- and three-bedroom apartments available at Flynn and O’Flaherty development

Would you buy a home seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau?

Ex-council houses, country homes, apartments, plots of land, mobile homes and industrial premises are all up for grabs at auction on behalf of the State

Construction activity steady but housing still on upward curve

Latest BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland barometer indicates housing and commercial projects continued to increase in May

Dublin’s student accommodation shortage offers investors lucrative opportunity

Dublin's student-housing market offers stable, long-term returns of up to 7% driven by consistent demand

Housing Commission report – the building blocks for future policy or another house of cards?

An examination of the recommendations in the divisive report that are likely to be accepted and rejected

Q&A: Rent prices - Why are Rent Pressure Zones not working? And is there any hope in sight for renters?

New report from Daft.ie shows average rents in Dublin reached €2,395 in the first three months of the year

Ireland’s housing budget: How the State is now spending more than €8bn to address the crisis

State spending on a range of housing initiatives has risen significantly in recent years as the pressure is on to increase housing supply

In today’s Ireland, the rich live in houses that were built for the poor

In Ireland today, the only people who can live in houses originally built for poor labourers are rich people and, in some cases, really rich people

CRH landbank with scope for 1,700 homes primed for €25.5m sale

161-acre holding is in good location on M11 motorway between Bray and Enniskerry, and immediately south of the M50 merge

Lagan Homes pays more than €16m for south Dublin residential lands

Belfast-headquartered housebuilder’s acquisition will give it the capacity to deliver several hundred new homes

Skerries site with full planning for 12 homes guiding at €500,000

0.85-acre plot at Mill Hill Park has approval for scheme of apartments, duplexes and houses

Kilcock portfolio offers scope for residential investment at €3.25m

Sale comprises former 39-bed nursing home and six houses on 2.64-acre site in town centre

Is Dublin still an option for first-time buyers?

People who grew up in the capital used to be able to live within reach of family, but for many that ship has sailed

A home of your own: What is in the housing plan for under-40s?

Government Ministers insist that schemes are in place to help younger buyers, but what are they and do they work?

Mullingar land with full planning in place for 207 homes guiding at €4.5m

15.7-acre holding in an area of proven demand will be accessed through existing residential estate

Only 3% of private rentals available to Hap-dependent households, Simon report finds

Government needs to deliver at least 15,000 social housing homes for rent each year, says Simon Communities chief

Kildare town land with full planning for 168 new homes seeks €7m

12.35-acre site site has approval from An Bord Pleanála for the development of a mix of houses, duplexes and apartments

Derelict properties being brought back to use in Tipperary despite grant scheme issues

Raised grant payment is driving up the cost of vacant and derelict properties, anecdotal evidence in Tipperary indicates

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