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© Business Post |
16 Jan '25 |
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Buying unsellable apartments and pilfering Google’s cost rental idea: 6 new government housing policies
The final draft of the document contains fresh proposals to beef up the power of the LDA and promote one-off rural housing - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
16 Jan '25 |
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DEAL: 1, 3 and 5 St Stephen’s Green sold by Aviva’s Irish Commercial Property Fund
The price is understood to be a substantial discount to the €13.5m which had been quoted by Savills. The purchaser is believed to be the Treacy Group which already owns shopping centres and retail p - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
16 Jan '25 |
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Housing commencements surge to over 60,000 in 2024
Commencement notices for the construction of 60,243 new homes were received by the Building Control Management System (BCMS) in 2024. That represented an 84 per cent increase on the 32,801 recorded in - Subscribe |
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© The Property Week |
15 Jan '25 |
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CBRE: Improvement in land sales in 2024; framework in place to support development in 2025
CBRE Ireland has confirmed that just over €900m of land sales transacted in 2024; this follows a strong Q4 where over €415m of transactions were recorded. The annual total of over €900m is nearl - Subscribe |
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© The Property Week |
15 Jan '25 |
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One Westmoreland, Dublin 2 sold to private investor, with full planning permission for a 38-bedroom hotel
The original guide price was €6m and the property was sold to a private buyer. Paul Collins, Head of CBRE Hotels Ireland, commented: “This superb opportunity was sold to a private investor who rec - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
15 Jan '25 |
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Affordable housing proposed for vacant Ballymun shopping centre site
Affordable homes for low- and middle-income workers could be built on the vacant site of the Ballymun shopping centre in north Dublin following assessment by the Land Development Agency (LDA). - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
12 Jan '25 |
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Housing Commission members urge next government to adopt their proposals for more new homes
The report recommended increasing capacity in the homebuilding sector, establishing locations where homes can be developed rapidly at scale, doubling the size of the social and cost-rental housing sec - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
11 Jan '25 |
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Glenveagh buys up big suburban landbank at €31k per housing site
The total cost of the land acquisitions which are mostly in Dublin is €285m, the bulk of it was paid during 2024. That works out at €31,000 per unit, the stock market-listed builder said. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
11 Jan '25 |
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Dundrum apartments decision a symptom of broken planning system
In a logical scenario, the two sides would sit down at the start – based on clear planning guidelines – drawn up after local consultation and offering appropriate rights to objection and agree wha - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
11 Jan '25 |
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Clúid buys 328-unit residential development in Tallaght for almost €160m
The agency bought the development at Airton Plaza from property investment group ESR Europe for a fee understood to be about €159.7 million. The scheme also features commercial spaces, retail units, - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
10 Jan '25 |
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First-time buyer mortgage approvals hit record levels in November
First-time buyer mortgage approvals hit a record last November, new figures from Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) showed, with the average value approved rising more than 8 per cent. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
10 Jan '25 |
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The Irish Times view on the mortgage market: increasing exposure for young borrowers
The Central Bank needs to closely monitor mortgage lending practices and ignore calls to loosen the lending rules further. The level of house prices needs to be recognised as a problem and this also c - Subscribe |
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© The Property Week |
09 Jan '25 |
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CBRE Ireland today confirm Dublin office take-up statistics for 2024
Q4 2024 represented a continued rebound for Dublin office leasing activity, with take-up totalling nearly 548,000 sq ft (50,891 sq m). This brought full-year take-up to over 2.25m sq ft (209,000 sq m) - Subscribe |
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© Business Post |
09 Jan '25 |
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First-time buyers take on record debt levels amid housing supply crunch
First-time buyers in Ireland are borrowing more and are older on average than their UK counterparts for the first time since the Celtic Tiger - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
09 Jan '25 |
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Average cost of second-hand homes in Dublin likely to reach €630,000 this year, says DNG
House prices across the country will probably rise by as much as 8 per cent this year, according to estate agent DNG, which would bring the average price of a second-hand home in Dublin to almost €6 - Subscribe |
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© The Property Week |
09 Jan '25 |
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MyHome Q4 2024 Property Report in association with Bank of Ireland
Main FindingsNational asking prices up 8.4% over the year, the highest rate of annual inflation since summer 2022 The average mortgage loan for house purchase has exceeded €300,000 for the f - Subscribe |
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© The Property Week |
08 Jan '25 |
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JLL: Ireland’s Commercial Real Estate 2024 - Retail Investment Surges Amid Mixed Market Performance
JLL Ireland today unveiled its latest research findings on commercial real estate investment activity for 2024, highlighting a year of contrasting sector performances. The research shows that total in - Subscribe |
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© RTE |
08 Jan '25 |
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David Murphy: New year, same old problems in the property market
DNG estimate that just one-third of the homes built each year actually reach the open market, for two reasons: One is because the State purchases large numbers for social and affordable accommodation. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
08 Jan '25 |
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Permission refused for ‘monstrous’ 881-apartment scheme in Dundrum
Planning permission for almost 900 apartments on the site of the old Dundrum shopping centre in Dublin has been refused following a long-running battle and hundreds of objections from locals. - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
08 Jan '25 |
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Lioncor’s fresh plans for Terenure College apartments ‘address’ concerns
They said that the density had been reduced from 146 units per hectare to 107 units by reducing the quantum of residential development and height. McGill Planning said that there were significant desi - Subscribe |
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