Full coverage: Property

Policymakers still speak of a single rental market but the real landscape is far more fractured, with competing interests shaping outcomes.

The Currency examines US-based construction magnate Maurice Regan’s landbank in the Premier County as he butts up against John Magnier’s Coolmore empire – along with their rivalry's perceived knock-on impact on land prices.

Purchases of agricultural land by companies and investors risk pricing farmers out and returning ownership to a restricted elite, prompting calls for the restoration of a regulatory body absent since the abolition of the Land Commission.

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.

The reversal of Brendan McDonagh’s role as housing tsar lays bare the dysfunction at the heart of Ireland’s political response to its housing emergency.

Ireland is among the world’s most tightly regulated rental markets. As it reviews its rent control regime, international lessons detail that without reform, efforts to protect tenants may end up worsening the housing crisis.

Kennedy led the shared office space provider for four years but is now moving on. “I believed in Grafter’s mission with my whole heart — and I still do,” she said.

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

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.

Flood risk is no longer invisible in Ireland. The same needs to happen for the wider climate risks shaping the homes we build, buy, and live in.