11 Mar

Mary Wilson discussed current housing issues with Karl Deeter on the back of a story by Charlie Weston in the Independent about first t...

08 Mar

We lament that older people under-occupy homes, the older people probably aren't so upset or they wouldn't do it. They have reasons for...

03 Mar

Unemployment The causes of these dramatic price movements in such a short period are numerous as mentioned in the introduction but une...

02 Mar

Background: The Irish residential property market has gone from a period of spectacular growth, to a dramatic crash and lately to reco...

08 Feb

This article first appeared in the Sunday Business Post on the 7th of February 2016 Below is some well-intentioned advice on what coul...

03 Feb

In an article today about mortgages by John Cradden of the Irish Independent we were quoted extensively regarding our thoughts on loans...

01 Feb

Lorcan Sirr, a housing lecturer at Dublin Institute of Technology in Bolton Street has been very critical of the Department of Environm...

18 Jan

The Surveyors Journal did an excellent info-graphic on how much it costs to build a house (with no land cost factored in) It's fairly ...

18 Jan

Something often forgotten are the lessons from history, in recent debates about spiralling rents and other such issues, the one thing t...

14 Jan

There was a fascinating paper published by the pensions institute in 2010 entitled 'spend more today' and it was about ways to encourag...

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