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01 Feb '17 |
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DEAL: Carysfort Castle buys 160 apartments (the St Edmund??s homes) in west Dublin for ?36m
Carysfort Castle, an Irish property investment company headed by Michael Looney, has outbid several overseas companies to buy an investment portfolio of 160 apartments near Liffey Valley Shopping Cent - Subscribe |
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01 Feb '17 |
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Paul Kelly: Mastering buyers?? financing a powerful tool for property vendors
Clearly, if debt is required then understanding the level of gearing typically achieved will help clarify the type of geared return required for the transaction to make sense, with a direct impact on - Subscribe |
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01 Feb '17 |
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Commercial property returns up 13.6% in 2016, says JLL
Hannah Dwyer, head of research at JLL, said the overall returns were in line with the long-term annual projections for the JLL Index since 1972 of 13.2 per cent. Capital growth was the main driver, wi - Subscribe |
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01 Feb '17 |
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State wants multinationals to help revive inner city Dublin
A Government taskforce is to ask multinational firms to provide jobs or sponsor third-level education for young people in Dublin??s northeast inner city. - Subscribe |
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01 Feb '17 |
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Keith Lowe: New laws mean landlords will sell, tenants will be evicted
I am certain this is not what the Minister envisioned or anticipated, but unfortunately it will be one of the unintended consequences of the new rental legislation. It is now evident that an apartment - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '17 |
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Falling sterling hits UK interest in Irish property
Overall overseas enquiries for Irish properties are up, according to the Real Estate Alliance (REA), which estimates that close to one-in-five Irish property sales (18pc) nationally is currently made - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '17 |
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Lidl wins planning permission battle with 'serial objector' Tesco
This follows An Bord Pleanála giving Lidl the go-ahead for a store at Edenderry in Co Offaly in spite of Tesco's opposition.
Over the past 12 months, Tesco has unsuccessfully opposed six new Lidl re - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '17 |
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Belfast commercial property building at 10-year peak, report says
Simon Bedford, partner in Deloitte??s Real Estate practice, said the report shows that Belfast is on an ??upward trajectory? as a location for investment and development. - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '17 |
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State??s biggest landlord backs ?10m levy to fix Beacon defects
Ires Reit, the largest single owner of apartments at Beacon South Quarter in Sandyford plans to vote in favour of a ?10 million charge to fix fire-safety and other structural defects at the south Du - Subscribe |
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31 Jan '17 |
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Metro North construction may be brought forward
It does not want to encourage so-called ??ribbon development? of small clusters of homes off any new road such as the M20 but to further develop Cork and Limerick, in terms of population and infras - Subscribe |
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30 Jan '17 |
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Three more Iceland stores to boost jobs
The three new stores, which will be opened this year in Tallaght, Galway and an undisclosed location, will take Iceland's number of outlets in Ireland to 15 and its overall workforce to more than 300. - Subscribe |
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30 Jan '17 |
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First-time buyers: How to get the best mortgage
"Mortgage approvals shot up in recent months," said John McCartney, director of research with Savills. "That may signify that many of those looking to buy a home were hanging on last year - to see wha - Subscribe |
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30 Jan '17 |
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John FitzGerald: Expanding capacity of building sector takes time
The delayed response by the building sector to the pressing need for more houses means it is likely that we will need a period of higher output in the early years of the next decade. In the meantime h - Subscribe |
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30 Jan '17 |
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Moody??s: Irish house prices forecast to increase by 5% in 2017
It noted that the share of domestic mortgages with loan-to-value ratios above 100 per cent for the four largest banks had decreased to 26 per cent as of December 2015 from 50 per cent two years earlie - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '17 |
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DEAL: 40,000 sqft Carrick-on-Shannon Department of Social Protection office, sells for ?6.2m - 11pc above guide price
Michele Jackson of TWM said that interest in the property had come predominantly from private investors and from funds seeking high-yielding secure income as part of an overall portfolio. - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '17 |
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Back to boom era: first-time buyers borrowing an average of over ?200k
New figures from the Banking and Payments Federation show that the average mortgage approved for a first-time buyer rose to ?201,928 in December. - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '17 |
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House building activity increased by more than 30% in 2016 according to Construction Industry Federation
??All measures of house building activity and housing output show a strengthening trend as we begin 2017,? said CIF director general Tom Parlon. - Subscribe |
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29 Jan '17 |
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Easy commute, cheap to run: What people buying new homes want
People want utility rooms but these are not yet standard, says Barry Feenan of Knight Frank ?? although they are included in schemes such as Hollywood Rath, beyond Blanchardstown in Dublin 15, which - Subscribe |
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27 Jan '17 |
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Allsop: Major recovery for industrial and development land in 2016
Richard O'Neill, head of commercial auctions at Allsop, points out that commercial investment will look increasingly attractive as it offers greater scope for rental growth and has the advantage that - Subscribe |
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27 Jan '17 |
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Rent caps are set to trigger flight of buy-to-let investors
With vacant properties unaffected by the new rent caps in the first year though, Allsop's Richard O'Neill believes there will still be potential for growth in the demand for this stock "given the like - Subscribe |
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