Full coverage: Housing

Beyond housing, our approach to saving and investment is primitive and punitive. Given that so many younger people are locked out of the housing market, we need to change our policies to encourage people to save, invest and build pensions.

While Ireland is well used to institutional investors purchasing entire apartment blocks, there has been little history here of American-style corporate landlords aggressively competing in the open market to assemble portfolios from once-off home purchases. Until now.

Meredith Greif is a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University. She spent two years interviewing more than 100 landlords to learn why they treat tenants the way they do and how the system could improve for both.

For decades, Government policy has been to outsource social housing to private landlords while telling them that they needn’t bother with common public supply transparency obligations. This is coming back to bite one of their own.

How does the rental crisis look from the perspective of IRES Reit, Ireland’s biggest landlord?

Tokyo is worth paying attention to because it shows how to have your cake and eat it: A growing, rich, modern city with low rents, and a unique culture.

It is often said that Irish officialdom routinely favours landlords with better protection and more advantageous rules. The past year’s battle to obtain information on HAP recipients appears to confirm this.

The Housing Assistance Payment is one of the state’s largest subsidy schemes, yet the identity of its recipients has been a well-guarded secret. Data obtained through a freedom of information request lifts a corner of the veil.

Behind a leafy façade in Georgian Dublin, a small team has been instrumental in directing global institutional investors towards Irish property development. Based on hundreds of documents, site visits and insider information, this investigation tells Ardstone’s story.

When the housing crisis emerged, Ardstone Capital had an address book full of international investors and no baggage from the Irish property crash. In the past six years, it has discreetly funded every possible type of home in the country.