Full coverage: Housing

The pandemic has left its mark on the jobs and housing markets. Jobs became hybrid and the trend of more expensive counties seeing greater house price growth was halted. Is there a new model emerging?

The latest iteration of the National Development Plan sets funding allocations first, leaving project prioritisation for later – except for three Dublin infrastructure mammoths.

Despite robust first-time buyer demand, new housing supply is slowing and second-hand market turnover remains worryingly flat.

It says a lot about the capacity of our state that it can grasp and grapple with Donald Trump more easily and with more surety than putting bricks on top of other bricks in fields outside of towns and cities.

The challenge of finding accommodation for staff is evolving from a major concern expressed in anonymised business surveys into a toxic mix of unhealthy attitudes and practices.

It is absolutely right that, in a democratic system, the people – at national and local level – help set the parameters on housing policy. However, the State has a responsibility to those not living somewhere yet. It must provide for the future as well as the present.

Housing completions have been flatlining for three years. At the same time, Ireland has experienced one of the biggest population increases in the world. The Government's approach to housing is not working.

A decade after Ireland’s mortgage rules cooled the market, house prices are rising again — this time driven by supply shortages.

Dublin City Council blocked journalists’ requests for access to private emergency accommodation payments for almost a decade. The public procurement of multi-million-euro contracts should never be a state secret.

In 2023, the State paid private property owners €140m – and rising – to put a roof over the heads of Dubliners left out in the cold by the housing crisis. In the first part of a major series, we name the biggest earners.