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© The Irish Times |
19 Sep '17 |
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Wrangling over ‘affordable housing’ prices threatens funding
“In some of the south Dublin sites, the developers are having difficulty delivering affordable housing because of the overall development costs associated with the area.
“It is easier for develop - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
19 Sep '17 |
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Fintan O’Toole: We have returned to 1913 conditions - families living in a single room
The market myth was exposed in the crazy boom years. We had a frenzy of private housebuilding. Houses were going up like balloons at a children’s party: at the height of the madness, we were buildin - Subscribe |
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© Irish Examiner |
14 Sep '17 |
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Paul Mills: Developers need to accept houses need to be built for people on the average wages
I cannot understand why housing planning applications are not flooding the local authority’s’ offices or why housing construction isn’t booming. - Subscribe |
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© Irish Examiner |
13 Sep '17 |
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Developer Michael O’Flynn seeks new measures to spur building
Mr O’Flynn — who was speaking at a Chartered Institute of Management Accountants business breakfast in Cork — said that there was a lack of “joined-up thinking” at the moment that was hamper - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
13 Sep '17 |
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[Selfish] Public culture is ultimately to blame for lack of houses
Michael O’Loughlin: This is not a crisis, this is a permanent, structural condition, one which has been carefully planned – or rather, carefully and deliberately left unplanned, for a complex mixt - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
08 Sep '17 |
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Complex housing crisis needs variety of imaginative solutions
Marian Finnegan, chief economist with property agents Sherry FitzGerald, puts the requirement at 38,000-39,000 houses a year up to 2020. She points to just 0.8 per cent of standing stock being availab - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
07 Sep '17 |
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Barry Cowen, TD: Responding to Fintan O'Toole's comments about VAT proposals
This is why we proposed to directly incentivise the construction of units (houses or apartments) to be sold below affordable price points. This would involve the application of the special rate of VAT - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
05 Sep '17 |
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Tax breaks for housing developers show Fianna Fáil's true colours
This history is worth recalling because Fianna Fáil is at it again. Over the weekend it unveiled its big new idea to solve the housing crisis: tax breaks for developers. - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
04 Sep '17 |
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Government must not create house price spike - Slark
Gavin Slark of Grafton group: "I don't want to take a political view on it, but if we can find mechanisms in Ireland that help to underpin the growth in the housing market, I think that's a good thing - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
01 Sep '17 |
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Colum Kenny: A semi-State for housing would solve absolutely nothing
There is no single planning body for the entire Dublin region, including Dún Laoghaire, Bray and Fingal. And who has ever answered for “planning failures of the past”? Planning should ultimately - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
16 Aug '17 |
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How can we force vulture funds to build homes?
They are not inherently evil. They are just rational.
And rather than rail helplessly against the predictable behaviour of the sort of mobile international capital we invited into Ireland in the firs - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
11 Aug '17 |
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Is the property market 'at middle stage of upturn'?
The latest quarterly commercial property monitor from the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) found that only half of members nationally believe that the property market is at the middle sta - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
11 Aug '17 |
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Carrots have failed to get houses built... it's time to use the stick
But it's not just the 'Stabilising Rents, Boosting Supply' scheme that appears to be such an abject failure. Earlier this week, the Irish Independent revealed that developers and local authorities had - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
17 Jul '17 |
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Indo editorial: Help-to-buy scheme a disaster - as predicted
And we also know that this is all about lack of supply. We urgently need more houses to be built and for that we need bureaucratic log-jams set aside as quickly as possible.
We acknowledge the sinc - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
17 Jul '17 |
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Indo editorial: Property and the squeezed middle
It may be that the crisis has ushered in a new era in which the middle-class aspiration of property ownership will remain beyond the reach of many in this new generation and that the relative norm els - Subscribe |
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© The Irish Times |
11 Jul '17 |
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Tanya Sweeney: At €4,000 a month, my property earns more than I do
On the ground, buyers, bloodied but far from unbowed, are speaking a familiar language: “Well over asking price”; “Bidding storm”; “Not our dream home, but it will do”. - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
10 Jul '17 |
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Solution to the housing crisis is under our noses
The latest Census data tells us there are more than 180,000 vacant homes across the State. Bringing even 50,000 of them back into use would represent the equivalent of two years' supply and help ease - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
03 Jul '17 |
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Colm McCarthy: Deflating housing bubble must bring realistic prices
It has taken several decades to create the current artificial shortage of building land in the Dublin area and it would be risky to unravel it too quickly. - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
26 Jun '17 |
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Richard Curran: Time to say bye bye to ill-conceived Help-to-Buy housing scheme
When it bites the dust, most likely in the October budget, it will no doubt have helped finance nice furnishings for people who were buying their first home and didn't need the cash. It will also have - Subscribe |
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© Irish Independent |
26 Jun '17 |
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More bad news for house-hunters as property prices set to soar in July thanks to 'interference'
Philip Farrell, a property consultant and market commentator, said the help-to-buy scheme introduced by Simon Coveney was having a devastating effect on the property market.
"It was brought in to a - Subscribe |
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