Author Archives: ciaran

The commercial property market continues to show stability, with the latest JLL Property Index reporting overall returns of 2.4 per cent in the last quarter and 11.1 per cent in the full 12-month period. Capital values increased by 1.2 per cent in … Continue reading →

New property millionaires are being created at a rate of a dozen a week. There are now close to 4,000 homeowners in Ireland whose property is worth €1m or more. Sandycove in Dublin is the most expensive market in the … Continue reading →

Thousands of tenants in Dublin face an unwelcome extra bill this year as spiralling rents tip them above the €2,500-a-month level at which a little-known 1 per cent stamp duty applies. Some 55 per cent of three-bedroom Dublin city family … Continue reading →

The rate of expansion in construction activity in the Republic slowed in June, with the civil engineering segment of the market contracting slightly even as the housing and commercial subsectors remained strong, according to a report published on Monday. Read … Continue reading →

HOUSES PRICES ACROSS the country are rising more than €2,000 every single month on average, according to the latest House Price Report from Daft.ie. On a national basis, the average price of a house is €240,000 – 11.7% higher than … Continue reading →

Last week’s column discussed some recent history, in particular the regulatory backlash to the building boom that took place between 2000 and 2007. The main point was that many believe that the volume and quality of building was a result … Continue reading →

The rampant spread of an invasive plant species is devaluing properties substantially and costing home owners tens of thousands of euro to remedy. Japanese knotweed can now be found “in every county in Ireland” and there is a chronic lack … Continue reading →

The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland says that even before the Grenfell Tower fire in London, there had been “major concerns” over fire safety in multi-unit dwellings in Ireland, particularly those built between 2000 and 2008. One fire-proofing expert believes … Continue reading →

The pace of property price rises has picked up again. They were up 10.5pc in the year to April, which was stronger than the 9.6pc increase in March, according to the latest information from the Central Statistics Office. Prices rose … Continue reading →

There is nothing new under the sun and this applies as much to the Irish housing market as anything else. The truly alarming thing about the current housing crisis is that it is really just a rerun of the crisis … Continue reading →