Housing crisis

‘Vulnerable people will not be left alone,’ says Colm Brophy

New policy is another stopgap measure

Liberalisation of the planning guidelines is necessary to support rural communities, proponents argue, but opponents point to environmental impacts and increased pressure on services

Hooke & MacDonald boss says he sees early signs of recovery in private rental sector

Housing without planning permission in back gardens is a prime example of a government accepting a populist idea without proper interrogation

Housing Activation Office should focus on big strategic sites and let local authorities worry about schemes with a few hundred houses each

Property Clinic: My family will have to move house if we lose this extra space

Councillors resist ‘invasion on virgin lands’ of the Dublin Mountains

Number of people in emergency accommodation in Ireland reaches 17,517, another record high

Almost 100 private houses purchased by authority since 2018 in effort to turn vacant properties into social housing

In the middle of a housing crisis, I drive through the centre of country towns or villages and see dark and empty first and second floors and wonder why?

Ibec employment law event hears of ongoing delays in renewing Irish Residence Permits

Apart from the fact that there is not enough of it, the system is all positives for tenants but cracks are emerging for providers

Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

Most schemes undertaken by approved groups or Land Development Agency due to high debt burden

Denmark’s social housing model shows how government initiatives can build sustainable and affordable housing for mixed communities

While international capital is essential, there is a strong case for fostering investment among Irish households

Homeowners will also be able to avail of tax exemptions for rental income

Home building could hit 43,000 this year, says top civil servant

Every pressure group now knows it can be the unstoppable force that meets the moveable government

Move would prevent sale of any private market housing in Dublin 7 development of more than 1,000 apartments

Tipperary directly built just three new social houses. Dublin managed 72

When cost rental is excluded from data, increase in private tenancies is actually much lower than claimed, says Sinn Féin

Sherry Fitzgerald reports a 1.3% increase in the average value of second-hand homes nationwide, down from 2.3% last year

‘This uplift signals that permissions granted in recent years are increasingly moving into the build phase,’ Government says

Sites given to children are tax-free if the plan is to build a home, but things get complicated if they sell it on with no home

Profiteering from rental income via reits and property funds during a housing crisis is inherently unethical

Housing body Clúid says it will have to switch to 100 per cent social housing at Bannow Road development in Cabra

Milltown housing development to include 556 apartments and six three-bedroom courtyard houses

I’m not much of a believer in signs, but surely the resilience of my clematis is something to cling to

There will be 1.6 million people aged 65 and over in Ireland in 15 years’ time

Developer puts indicative price of €73.9m on 142 homes tagged for social housing

The highest median price paid for a dwelling was €681,500 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, while the lowest was €198,000 in Donegal

Legislation overhauled RPZ system and allowed landlords to reset rents between tenancies

More people deciding to work on their home instead of moving

Building activity in the residential sector posted its second successive month of growth for the first time since the first half of 2025

Internal papers say builders rushed to take advantage of levy waivers by registering commencements but that some projects were not progressing

Part of the goal of the Central Bank policy is to make it a bit easier for smaller lenders to enter the bridging market

Thousands of households are trapped in long-term mortgage arrears, and now fuel debt and buy-now-pay-later schemes are affecting many more

Homebuilder’s share price need to more double for all options to be in the money