Full coverage: Housing

To build 50,000 homes per year, enormous amounts of capital will have to be found each and every year. Here are the options.

What Ireland needs over the next three decades is the exact opposite of what it has had for the last one: a system that can deliver homes at huge scale, and that can adapt as conditions change.

Ryanair is only the most prominent example of firms buying up lands and estates to help their workers. Should the State follow suit with a key worker plan?

As a young, small and fast-growing economy, Ireland has relied on foreign investors to fund its growth. The model is changing now. Is the Government capable of stepping in?

The geography of the housing construction industry is changing. While record numbers of new homes are being built, that is not the case in Dublin’s commuter counties, raising questions for planning policy.

The housing need demand assessment artificially suppresses housing in the east of the country. It needs to go.

The block sale of an almost entire Dublin housing estate to a buy-to-let investment fund triggered "a media and social media storm". Seller Greg Kavanagh explains why he made the decision.

Questions are often asked about who will build housing, how it will be built, in what quantity it will be built, what form it will take, and when it will be built. There’s much less discussion over where it will all be built.

With interest rates high, many would-be owner-movers will stay put to keep their low-interest rates for another couple of years yet. We should expect that 2024 will be another year of tight supply.

Just before Christmas, Vision Capital made its move: It called for an extraordinary general meeting of Ires shareholders. We now have Ires's response.