Can an Eircode change your address? No – here’s why
We put your questions to the Department of Communications.
View ArticleTake 4: Homes for every budget
Here is our pick of properties from €250k up to €1 million.
View ArticleIreland’s investment fund is going to spend €500 million building 11,000 houses
It will create 1,900 jobs a year.
View ArticleThe most expensive homes for sale in Silicon Valley right now
Tech millionaires do alright for themselves.
View ArticleHouse prices went up again last month and they’re not stopping
But the rate of property price increases is slowing.
View ArticleThree 20-something entrepreneurs just launched an Airbnb for refugees
The website operates pretty much like Airbnb. People, called “heroes”, offer up spare rooms in their homes for refugees to temporarily stay in.
View ArticleNama to build 80 new homes a week over next five years
Most of these will be houses and there will be a focus on starter homes.
View ArticleHomeowners who bought in the boom shell out €6,000 more a year for their...
The difference in mortgage repayments is almost 66%.
View ArticlePlans for modular housing slammed as building actual houses would be cheaper
The department has said it is building houses but it will be two years before they come on stream and this is the solution in the meantime.
View ArticleFairy lights could be slowing down your broadband, watchdog warns
Other household items that were flagged as slowing down wifi were microwave ovens, baby monitors and lamps.
View ArticleNama is putting €1.9 billion into building in Dublin’s Docklands
And €5.6 billion into building loads of houses.
View ArticleProposals for more modular housing sites announced – here’s where they are
Fingal and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown councils have put forward the proposals.
View ArticleCash, jewellery and GPS trackers seized in raids targeting Kinahan cartel
The operation began this morning.
View ArticleShould the government buy houses back from vulture funds? The public is split
The master of the High Court said it could work as one of the solutions to the housing crisis.
View ArticleCoveney to miss 100-day housing plan deadline as 'people are not focused on...
The new housing minister said it would be published directly after the deadline, with work to commence in September.
View ArticlePoll: Should first-time buyers get a government grant?
Plans to tackle the housing crisis include a scheme to help first-time buyers.
View ArticleOnline searches for new homes surge after Budget announcement
Interest in new homes was greatest in the Dublin area, along with the Dublin commuter counties, said one property website.
View ArticleBuyers are snapping up new homes in the town once dubbed Ireland's first...
The first phase of a 177 new home development in Adamstown was launched this weekend.
View ArticleNama has identified nearly 7,000 homes for social housing - but only 2,748...
That is according to the agency’s annual report, published yesterday.
View ArticleHospitals still owned by the Catholic Church should be handed over to the...
He also described what happened to mother and baby home survivors as” unchristian cruelty”.
View ArticleTracker mortgages: €76 million paid out in compensation so far to customers...
A new report states that 9,900 impacted customer accounts have now been identified by lenders.
View ArticleThere are only three Irish counties where the average house price is under...
The CSO’s property price index shows that house prices have risen sharply in the past year.
View Article'No wonder there's such a delay': Just four staff in unit tasked with...
Housing minister Eoghan Murphy said this team works with experienced staff within the department, key agencies, local authorities and the construction sector.
View ArticleNorris lets rip on vulture funds: 'Why were they allowed into this country?'
Speaking about his new Housing Co-op Bill, Norris said people appear to have forgotten that “eviction” is a dirty word in Ireland.
View ArticleOnly one Irish county has an average house price under €100,000
The CSO’s property price index shows that house prices have risen sharply in the past year.
View ArticleSmart meters to be rolled out across Ireland in 2019 - a year later than...
All old electricity meters are to be replaced in what’s described as a ‘once-in-a-generation’ project.
View ArticleIreland will need 550,000 more homes and 660,000 more jobs for extra 1...
From today until 3 November, the public can make written submissions on the government’s national planning framework.
View ArticleThe man who pioneered a solution to homelessness: Give people homes
Dr Sam Tsemberis is the pioneer of housing first – which takes rough sleepers of the streets and gives them homes.
View ArticleMurphy hails 'progress' housing people but numbers in emergency accommodation...
Sinn Féin’s housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin called Murphy’s bullishness “spin”.
View Article10% of all residential mortgages in Ireland are in arrears
The number of mortgages behind on payments has dropped since the depths of the recession.
View Article'They have nowhere else': Sierra Leone mudslide victims move back to homes in...
The August mudslide killed more than 1,000 people and there are fears for another landslide in the next rainy season.
View Article'They know the gun is to the head': Vexatious objectors are delaying the...
The head of the Construction Federation of Ireland said developers are paying objectors up to €10,000 to make their objections go away.
View ArticleTwo building giants battling over pyrite 'should make sure homeowners are...
Ballymore Group is suing Ireland’s biggest company, CRH.
View ArticleEven PTSB customers who are meeting revised loan terms will have mortgages...
Executives blamed the European regulator for the classification of these loans as non-performing.
View ArticleMany mortgage rates are being cut - but the sector needs 'careful monitoring'
Incomes are not rising to match lending.
View ArticleStorm Emma caused higher levels of mortgage arrears as customers missed...
The number of accounts in arrears over 720 days has fallen but these cases still account for 41% of all accounts in arrears.
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