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18 Sep '26 |
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Permission for Avaio Digital Data centre facility in Killala, Co Mayo overturned
“The applicant has failed to demonstrate that the proposed development would be in accordance with the overarching objectives of the Climate Action Plan 2025,” it said in its ruling. - Subscribe |
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18 Sep '26 |
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Dundrum Town Centre to see flurry of new arrivals and store reopenings
Among other brands to arrive at Dundrum over the coming weeks will be Spanish fashion brand Stradivarius, which will open a new 1,020sq m store. British lifestyle brand Oliver Bonas will also open a n - Subscribe |
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18 Sep '26 |
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The Irish Times view on housing delivery: speed is of the essence
The precise reasons are not clear, but are likely to relate in part to delays getting water, sewerage and electricity connections. Skilled labour shortages and rising costs are also likely to be contr - Subscribe |
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18 Sep '26 |
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Homes taking twice as long to deliver than a decade ago, an average of four years: Central Bank
“The homes that are built now take longer to arrive,” the bank said. “For homes completed so far in 2026, the average duration from lodgment of planning application to completion was four years, - Subscribe |
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17 Sep '26 |
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Central Bank and BPFI paint two different pictures of market, but reach similar conclusion
Differing projections based off essentially similar data brings home the uncertainty of making forecasts such as these. In a general sense, two high-quality economists can look at the same figures and - Subscribe |
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17 Sep '26 |
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Planning permissions for new homes jump 60%: CSO
The agency said the total number of dwelling units approved in between April and June was 11,912, up from 7,447 in the same quarter of 2025. Permissions have averaged around 35,000 a year since 2021. - Subscribe |
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13 Sep '26 |
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Ardstone gets green light for 562 homes Former Jesuit site on Sandford Road and Milltown Road
“The latest application follows a substantial redesign of the proposals by Ardstone in response to concerns raised in legal challenges to the two previous permissions for the site,” Ardstone said. - Subscribe |
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13 Sep '26 |
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Councils expected to zone enough land for 1m new homes, conference hears
Glenveagh projects the total stock of occupied homes in the Republic to double by 2065 (to approximtely four million homes) with that growth front-loaded out to 2040 when demand is highest. - Subscribe |
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13 Sep '26 |
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Sinéad O'Sullivan: All the property schemes do one thing. It’s not help buyers
This is the surcharge that the State and its taxpayers pay, over and over, because it never built or provided any underlying assets itself.
Ireland’s Government, unable to govern, chooses to subs - Subscribe |
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08 Sep '26 |
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Apartment construction still sluggish despite Government measures to enhance viability
Mandy Johnston, head of Irish Institutional Property, said while the Government has enacted a lot of positive changes to help apartment development, it still needs to “sell that message” to proper - Subscribe |
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07 Sep '26 |
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EU prepares legal tool to help cities crack down on Airbnb-style short-term rentals
The EU executive is preparing to give cities a new legal tool to crack down on short-term rentals, but only if local administrations can prove that holiday lets are worsening housing pressures. - Subscribe |
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07 Sep '26 |
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Thousands left in fire-risk homes over red-tape delays
The government subsequently implemented the Interim Remediation Scheme in December 2023 to provide an acceptable level of fire safety in these buildings before the full remediation act came into place - Subscribe |
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06 Sep '26 |
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Brazilian trio accused of leasing 17 properties countrywide to operate as brothels
The court was told that the alleged organisation leased 17 properties countrywide, including nine premises in Dublin, as well as locations in counties Wexford, Cavan, Laois and Kildare, to operate as - Subscribe |
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06 Sep '26 |
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Demand for environmentally sound buildings ‘now key driver’ of commercial property market
Bernadine Hogan, the chairwoman of the society’s commercial agency committee, said “this trend has been the most profound development in recent surveys, as it further broadens the market divide be - Subscribe |
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06 Sep '26 |
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The Irish Times view on the ESRI housing report: house prices alarmingly overvalued
There are issues to be tackled across the board – in social housing, in developing affordable properties, in providing options for those who want to trade down and so on. But one of the crunch issue - Subscribe |
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06 Sep '26 |
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Irish house prices overvalued by 17% ‘with middle-income households hit hardest’
The report estimated where house prices should be on the basis of economic fundamentals such as income, interest rates and demographics, concluding they are overvalued by 17 per cent. - Subscribe |
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06 Sep '26 |
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First-time homebuyers can get some two-bed apartments with mortgage of €1,100 a month
Michael Stanley: “It is working because it moves people from homes that they rent, apartments that they rent, often costing €2,000 to €2,500 per month ... We’re delivering apartments people ca - Subscribe |
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03 Sep '26 |
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Ireland Planning in place for 80,000 Dublin homes, but work has started on less than half
Department of Housing: “Fifteen new sites commenced construction in this quarter, bringing a further 998 homes into the build phase. At the same time, 12 housing schemes were completed, delivering 1 - Subscribe |
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03 Sep '26 |
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Sharp rise in rents charged to new tenants as reforms took effect, RTB reports
Taoiseach Micheál Martin: “Clearly, for the long-term sustainability of the market, change had to occur, and that was recommended by the Housing Commission that we would change the existing system, - Subscribe |
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03 Sep '26 |
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DEAL: Site of Dublin’s historic Ormond Hotel sold in off-market deal for €12m
Malaysian-based Monteco Holdings has sold the site in an off-market transaction brokered by agent CBRE for about €12 million to buyers understood to be experienced hotel developers. - Subscribe |
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