Home for Life has acquired more than 1,100 properties under the state’s Mortgage to Rent scheme. But who owns it? And why was it embroiled in a recently settled dispute with one of the state’s largest real estate management firms?
It's hard to get permission to build extra housing in the suburbs because it's unpopular. A new approach to planning seeks to solve that problem.
For Dublin as a whole, open-market rents in the second quarter were just 0.9% higher than they were at the end of 2022, compared to an increase of 5.7% seen outside Dublin, on average, and even bigger increases seen in the north-west.
Homely is the new venture of Andrew Lynch, the former COO of Huckletree. It's a bridge between renting and owning a home for frustrated renters trying to buy their own place.
Nick Corcoran grew up in Dublin’s inner city and his first job was selling vegetables from a van in Ballymun. Today, along with his business partner Nigel McDermott, he runs Cardinal Capital, a pioneer in the Irish alternative financing sector.
I-Res's core business of renting out flats is going great but market pressures are forcing it to narrow its ambitions. Six key graphs help explain why.
Surpassing the government’s target of 33,000 – as seems possible by 2025 – will be far from sufficient. Realistically, the country needs to be building at least 45,000 homes per year and probably closer to 60,000 homes per year for decades.
Residents are moving into new council apartments on Dominick Street. From a collapsed public-private partnership to years of back-and-forth between officials over funding, the site illustrates the good, the bad and the ugly of public housing delivery.
The pandemic understandably squeezed the number of second-hand homes listed for sale. But why has the market not recovered since?
When we observe the yield on housing rising, some might be tempted to see that as evidence of a tilt in power away from labour and towards capital. But instead, it is a reflection of a housing system – and in particular a rental system – that is short on supply.
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