John Mccartney

It seems it’s a case of “damned if we do and damned if we don’t” when it comes to fixing the crisis in the housing market. Estate agent Savills publ(...)

One in four people are now renting their home in Dublin, the highest figure since quarterly records began, with a new report predicting that the avera(...)

The decision to abolish mortgage interest relief will lead to almost 300,000 mortgage holders paying more for their home loans. However, by tapering(...)

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has announced commercial stamp duty refunds to purchasers of residential sites, if they start building homes on t(...)

They’ve been singled out as playing havoc with the Central Bank’s efforts to put some manners on the housing market. Earlier this month, governor Phi(...)

They said it wouldn’t happen again, but if house prices continue to rise at the current pace, peak prices will return in the Dublin area by February 2(...)

Bars are the only retailers experiencing both sales growth and rising prices, according to a report by property firm Savills Ireland. The study of t(...)

Household sizes are critical to housing policy. For a given population they dictate both the number of housing units and the type of houses that we ne(...)

On the way down, we convinced ourselves it wasn’t happening, or at least most of us did. Warnings about the unsustainable nature of the Irish housing(...)

Property porn, much like the real thing, is likely to make users feel a little empty inside after a brief thrill. Certain pleasure centres of the brai(...)