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01 Aug '26 |
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MetroLink spends €2m per home on Dartmouth Square houses
New property filings show TII bought four properties on Dartmouth Square last month for a combined price of €9.1 million. The State body is expected to sell them on once the Charlemont station is co - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
01 Aug '26 |
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Compliance direction imposed on MKN Properties Group after breach of Equal Status Act 2000
The direction came after the firm refused to fill out the landlord section of the rent supplement form for a tenant unless he showed it his full application to the Department, including a disclosure o - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
20 Jul '26 |
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‘Disgraceful’: Dublin 7 residents on removal of ‘Selections’ shop near the Mater hospital from derelict register
Although the site, situated across from a planned MetroLink station, was put on the market in 2024 at a guiding price of €475,000, it is understood it remains in the ownership of brothers Brian Farr - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
19 Feb '26 |
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Government pushes for apartment living in desperate bid to deliver housing
Martin’s qualified admission of failure is to be welcomed if it signals a genuine increase in the urgency with which Fianna Fáil and its Coalition partner, Fine Gael, intend to tackle the housing c - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
19 Feb '26 |
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The new short-term letting rules: has the tourism sector won at the expense of housing?
“The net effect of both of those would be to regularise or make permanent in the Irish housing system an already mostly-illegal mini-industry,” he says.
And to do so, he adds, would be at the e - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
19 Feb '26 |
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RGRE Grafton Ltd owns all six Harry Clarke windows in Bewley’s, Supreme Court says
“We are disappointed with today’s judgment. Our wish to transfer the Harry Clarke stained glass artworks into public ownership through a donation to a suitable institution can now no longer be ful - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
16 Feb '26 |
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Greater co-ordination needed to tackle lack of affordable housing, SCSI president says
Gerard O’Toole, president of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI): “Too often progress is hindered, not by lack of ambition but by fragmentation, not by lack of innovation but by dela - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
16 Feb '26 |
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‘There’s no humanity any more’: Homebuyers on ‘soul-destroying’ bidding wars
Concerns of ‘phantom bidding’ exist, but estate agents point to reality of scant supply and huge demand - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
11 Feb '26 |
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ESRI: Ireland’s bidding system for homes ‘driving prices higher’
Deirdre Robertson: “Our findings also suggest that the most commonly used bidding systems encourage people to overbid, inflating prices.” - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
10 Feb '26 |
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HSE accused of indifference to housing crisis in its handling of almost 200 vacant properties
Ivana Bacik: “These buildings were supposed to be converted into homes for people and families under the Government’s last failed housing plan. Why has so little happened?” - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
09 Jan '26 |
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Dublin City Council targets 113 ‘inactive’ developments that could provide 13,000 homes
Landowners struggling to develop their residentially zoned sites in Dublin, with or without planning permission, are being sought by Dublin City Council (DCC) to provide large-scale social housing sch - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
05 Jan '26 |
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Irish homes now selling for 52% more than pre-Covid levels, says Daft.ie
Across the State, asking prices are now on average 41 per cent above pre-Covid levels and just 10 per cent below their Celtic Tiger peak.
The gap between asking prices and sale price is widening, t - Subscribe |
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04 Dec '25 |
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Mandate developers to build offices that can be turned into homes, report urges
Developers should be mandated to construct adaptable buildings to avoid future commercial property vacancy issues in city centres, according to a new report by The Chartered Institute of Building (CIO - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
13 Nov '25 |
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Q&A: Are the delivery targets in new housing plan realistic?
more land zoning, the development of publicly-financed infrastructure, more serviced land, attracting global investment, putting pressure on local authorities, developing capacity in the construction - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
10 Nov '25 |
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New housing plan aims to deliver 12,000 social homes and 15,000 affordable units per year
The Irish Times understands, meanwhile, there is to be an expansion of the role of the Land Development Agency (LDA) to deliver homes in a wider geographic area and acquire more private and State land - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
07 Nov '25 |
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Homebuilders ‘extremely concerned’ about supply of housing going forward
CIF chief executive Andrew Brownlee said the supply of zoned land was the issue he was “especially concerned about”. “Unless we zone and service more land housing supply will not increase.” - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
26 Oct '25 |
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Council officials branded Nazis for trying to obtain vacant properties for housing
Coilín O’Reilly, chief executive of Carlow County Council, said using compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) to acquire properties for housing was not culturally acceptable to all. “You are taking a p - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
15 Oct '25 |
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The Debate: Will the new measures to boost apartment building deliver more homes?
Conor O’Connell of Construction Industry Federation, John McCartney of Technological University Dublin and University College Dublin - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
13 Oct '25 |
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More than 4,100 people avail of First Home Scheme to buy a home
An overwhelming 72 per cent of live approvals have been for buyers in Dublin, Cork, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow, with the remaining 28 per cent spread across 21 counties. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
11 Oct '25 |
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The budget bet big on apartments. Will it help fix the housing crisis?
Conall Mac Coille, Bank of Ireland: “You will get an initial boost to your profit margin, but then if there’s a lack of workers, or a lack of zoned land or land with planning permission, then this - Subscribe |
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