‘Our cities are dying’: Large turnout at Dublin housing demonstration
'My dad was a civil servant and owned a home at 23. It was a completely different world,’ says one protester
Housing crisis
Estate agent offered to put kitchen down as ‘extra’ so home qualified for Help to Buy
Agent for Limerick auctioneers said they had ‘helped purchasers’ before using splits
DCC gives permission for Clonskeagh student housing
Bain-backed vehicle gets go ahead for 439 bed spaces near River Dodder
Irish rents rise by 115% since 2010, more than four times EU average
Eurostat report highlights rapid rise in cost of renting here since depths of financial crisis
‘I’m so scared’: Families in limbo after being told to leave international protection accommodation
Many of those affected are working locally, and their children attending local schools
Where will vital student housing come from?
Like Ireland’s wider housing crisis, there are too few student beds available with little sign of a solution
Ringfence €500m annually for water services, builders tell Government
Construction Industry Federation budget submission warns on infrastructure gap
Housing target should be revised up to 60,000 homes per year, Dublin Chamber says
The group said businesses are ‘increasingly dissatisfied and frustrated’ by the lack of delivery of infrastructure by the Government
How property tax could be used to make empty nesters sell their big houses
Taxes can be a powerful push factor for people to downsize
Government ‘pandering to whims of employers’ by choosing VAT cut over ending child poverty, Ictu conference told
Housing crisis causing huge problems for workers, conference hears
‘Splitting’ raises questions about oversight of Help to Buy scheme, says Simon Harris
Social Democrats say Government has done nothing to stop market actors pushing up house prices
Have you ever been offered a split deal in order to qualify for Help to Buy?
Have your say: What arrangements or offers have you come across while house-hunting
Investors and State tied to more than a fifth of home sales last year
CSO data indicate number of homes being purchased by non-households
Social housing projects to go from four-stage approval process to single-stage
Move is intended to speed up the process of getting Government approval for building homes
If long-term renting is such a good solution, why don’t more politicians do it?
The rent squeeze is hitting the most well-off tenants - 14% of them pay over 30% of their income on rent, versus 3% in other countries
The ‘emotional toll’ of buying a home in Ireland: ‘split’ deals and queueing for houses already sold
Hope soon gives way to frustration as you watch prices soar and floor plans shrink
Home buyer asked by estate agent for €25,000 for flooring to bypass Help to Buy scheme cap
Sherry FitzGerald launches internal investigation as Revenue warns against ’artificially splitting’ sale price to qualify for scheme
‘When do new rental rules take effect?’ ‘Can I be asked to move out now?’ Your tenant and landlord questions answered
We recently invited readers to submit queries on incoming rental changes. Here’s a selection of them, with our responses
Government measures designed to drive apartment building are ‘not as effective in practice as envisaged’
Minister to extend lifespan of State-owned property development lender by two years
Private rental sector has lost more than 43,000 properties over past five years
Ireland’s ‘stringent rent controls’ have led investors to seek more favourable markets in recent years, according to Sherry Fitzgerald
How rural Ireland is turning to vacant property grants for development
Grant is the most popular form of housing in nine counties and there are calls for it to be extended to multiple properties
Legislation on housing for foreign nationals to be brought forward under plan
Possible move characterised as an attempt to solve a problem ‘that does not exist’
Value of sanctions against Irish landlords for breaches reaches highest rate, RTB figures show
Investigation finds extensive overcrowding at multiple properties with mattresses laid on floors
Seán Moncrieff: In the not-too-distant future four of my five children may live overseas
Seán Moncrieff: ‘No thank you’ is her preferred method of refusal and that’s why she is an effective negotiator
Where is the value in increasing the Help-to-Buy scheme threshold?
First-time buyers deserve more credible support than raising the value of homes that qualify for the scheme
Policing Dublin’s rental market: ‘I paid about €400 to share a bed-bug infested room with four others’
The Residential Tenancies Board is having increasing success in prosecuting often-evasive rogue landlords, who often target foreign students through language schools
People with right to remain in Ireland stuck in direct provision centres due to lack of housing, Hiqa finds
Inspections covered IPAS centres in Cork, Kerry, Louth, Galway and Waterford
Another chaotic week in Trumpland as Nato summit navigates ‘daddy’ issues
From a Dáil row over the GPO to further housing woes, your essential end-of-week politics catch-up
‘Daddy’ Trump meets Nato, while defence, trade and Gaza dominate EU summit
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
What’s stopping us converting Dublin’s O’Connell St into a residential neighbourhood?
Incentives to developers do work. Take the example of Parliament Street, in the heart of the city
Dublin poet Stephen James Smith: ‘I’m just holding a mirror up to the city, trying to tell the truth’
The poet on the inspiration in his life, his dyslexia, Pat Ingoldsby, and how one poem he wrote changed his life
Irish mortgage approvals hit record €14.1bn over last year
Value of approvals rose 17.8 per cent in May compared with year earlier
Homelessness is ‘too high and we have to do better’, admits Harris
Tánaiste defends record after fresh criticism over child homelessness and report on people sleeping rough under M50
‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50
Rats and rubbish surround the camp at Finglas Road, but to some residents it’s better than other options
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