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Housing Market

This year
2025
Hold your horses
Take stock of housing policies before easing lending rules for developers, says Central Bank boss
24 Mar
11.2k
48
The Morning Lead
How does anyone buy a house in Ireland? Readers share their stories
Seriously, they’re so expensive – how do people do it? We asked you guys for answers.
Lots of people moved back into their parents' houses - or gardens - and found this really hard.
Intergenerational wealth plays a big role, with cash gifts and inheritances featuring in many readers' stories.
As house prices climb, people who bought during the pandemic told us they couldn't afford their home today.
18 Jan
28.8k
50
Last year
2024
Savills
Monaghan has fewest homes for sale or rent in the country according to new market analysis
28 Aug 2024
5.7k
32
Home
Housing market 'heating up' again as property price inflation rose by 7.9% in year up to April
19 Jun 2024
14.5k
63
Housing
Dermot Bannon and Department of Housing explain why they met before new season of Room to Improve
16 Jan 2024
40.9k
47
All time
Interest Rates
Analysis: Government and the Central Bank can take steps to free the 60,000 mortgage prisoners
Mark Coan
14 May 2023
17.1k
3
Ciarán Lynch
‘Disaster’ coming if housing isn’t fixed, head of 2008 crash inquiry warns
30 Apr 2023
44.5k
74
Housing Crisis
Opinion: 'Telling my child she'd missed a school place broke my heart'
Margaret Lynch
Updated 16 Jan 2023
35.7k
22
Housing Crisis
Average Irish rent soared by 85% compared to 18% EU average between 2010 and 2022
6 Dec 2022
15.7k
27
generation rent
Extract: 'Governments made decisions that led to your housing situation - you are not to blame'
Dr Rory Hearne
4 Oct 2022
18.4k
32
Housing
Median asking price for houses in Dublin rises to €403,000
24 Jun 2022
28.0k
39
Mortgages
Mortgage seekers need 'significantly' higher earnings than 10 years ago to secure financing
24 May 2022
17.1k
18
the good information project
Open Newsroom Event: Time to talk about the housing crisis
8 Jun 2021
20.9k
25
Opinion
Dr Rory Hearne: The Government does not want you to be able to afford to buy a home
Rory Hearne
Updated 5 May 2021
154k
195
Housing Market
First-time buyer mortgage drawdowns at highest Q1 level since 2007 - BPFI
29 Apr 2021
12.8k
10
Property Prices
Opinion: Every government has a choice - this one could ban cuckoo funds from buying up Irish homes
Cian O'Callaghan
22 Apr 2021
26.8k
72
Finances
Opinion: Our Central Bank mortgage lending rules are vital guards against booms and busts
Vasileios Madouros
8 Dec 2020
12.1k
66
Shutdown
'It was shaping to be a very strong year': How will the coronavirus crisis impact people buying houses?
2 Apr 2020
106k
64
property ladder
First-time buyers in Dublin are now spending an average of €375,000 for a home
13 Nov 2019
16.3k
20
Housing
Irish house prices stabilise as househunters show 'nervousness' ahead of Brexit
10 Oct 2019
21.3k
13
Housing
Irish property prices show slowest increase in six years
14 Aug 2019
22.9k
50
Boom to Bust
Taoiseach says there's 'no evidence of a land bubble' in Ireland
2 Aug 2018
20.5k
95
the tiger called
Like it's 2008 - Irish people set to break the €100 billion barrier in consumer spending this year
12 Apr 2018
11.5k
45
For Sale
Rise in house sales along commuter belts due to lack of affordable homes in Dublin
11 Sep 2017
22.8k
25
crowded market
Almost a quarter of renters now pay more than €1,300 a month for accommodation
30 Aug 2017
16.0k
37
like hot cakes
Three-bed semis in Dublin are now selling within three weeks
26 Jun 2017
28.1k
31
hasn't helped
Help-to-buy scheme may be scrapped admits Housing Minister
18 Jun 2017
25.7k
56
stock horror
One city has seen a huge hike in house prices - and it isn't Dublin
3 Jan 2017
80.0k
38
skyrocketing prices
Out of reach: 'Young people now have nowhere to rent in the city that they work in'
30 Nov 2016
17.5k
62
Student Accommodation
Rental crisis: 'The room itself is about 4m x 8m, not much bigger than a prison cell'
Billy Vaughan
26 Nov 2016
377
37
For Sale
Do you have to move out because your landlord is selling up? Now they'll have to prove it
3 May 2016
54.5k
81
shovel ready
This week’s vital property news: Rents on the up and house prices on the down
26 Mar 2015
4.7k
5
abandoned
Some of these derelict sites in Dublin have been vacant for years
15 Feb 2015
25.6k
54
Recovery
House prices have increased sharply, but "are still around fair value" (apparently)
6 Feb 2015
11.6k
23
north of the border
Could Belfast be the answer to your property woes?
15 Jan 2015
4.5k
1
movin' on down
7 of the most bizarre Irish rentals spotted online
22 Sep 2014
50.9k
13
Housing Market
Sold: €5m worth of property and land snapped up in "intensive" Galway auction
27 Jun 2014
15.0k
20
risk aversion
Investor house purchases have more than trebled in a year - but why?
11 Jun 2014
8.7k
22
ESRI
It's true...Ireland IS affected by housing market changes more than other countries
10 Jun 2014
9.3k
60
heating up
Warning over 'microwave' housing market
28 May 2014
16.8k
40
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