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The cost of renovating vacant properties to live in is so high it does not make economic sense most of the time to carry out

The property market is set for a slowdown in price rises in 2023 as mortgage interest rate rises and cost-of-living increases affect buying ability, according

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has introduced a Defective Concrete Products Levy in this year’s budget which will come into force from April 3 next year. The new

The rise in the cost of living is having a significant effect on prospective renters and homebuyers, a new survey has found. According to data

Building costs will continue rising this year but the pace of inflation should slow in coming months, surveyors say. The prices that builders bid for

Having consulted widely and at length with stakeholders and interested parties, the Working Group estimates that of apartments and duplexes (or associated common areas) constructed

Impact of 2008 meltdown and its belt-tightening aftermath still reverberate Ireland’s stellar financial blowout in 2008 and the follow-up austerity project, the biggest undertaken by

Projected fall set to follow sharp rise after worst of coronavirus pandemic, notes survey of estate agents Irish home price growth is set to ease

A combination of a shortage of residential development land, planning delays and spiralling labour and material costs are hindering the construction sector’s ability to deliver

Timber and other key building material prices are rising at a faster rate than this time last year, suppliers have warned. Overall construction material costs

House prices are increasing by Celtic Tiger levels of almost €100 a day as the market shows no signs of slowing down. The Q1 Irish Independent REA

Residential construction activity exceeded pre-pandemic levels last year, topping more than 30,000 units, according to a report from Deloitte. Deloitte Ireland’s latest Real Estate Planning &

Ireland’s property surveyors have urged the legal profession to introduce a digital conveyancing system to stop the long delays that are hampering the property market.

Residential property prices increased by 12.4 per cent nationally in the year to September, according to the latest data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). This compares

The cost of building is rising at twice the rate that it was before the pandemic, according to a new survey. The Society of Chartered Surveyors

As with other sectors, the new homes market has been adversely affected by the pandemic lockdowns. The latest one will begin to lift on April

The cost of delivering a two-bed apartment in Dublin ranges from €359,000 for a low-rise unit in the suburbs to as much as €619,000 for

Housing is at a crossroads in Ireland. We can continue lurching from crisis to crisis with “Generation Rent”, the homeless, and future generations locked out

The housing crisis will be a “permanent issue in Irish society” unless there is a radical rethink on how to deliver more affordable homes, industry

It will be a full and further decade before Ireland’s housing market finds equilibrium between supply and demand, it has been claimed, as the Government

The Irish construction industry is likely to have suffered the biggest quarterly crash in activity on record as a result of coronavirus, with output falling

See the question below recently submitted to the Irish Times Property Clinic: My neighbour has built on our party wall. I asked the builder to

See details below in relation to a query issued to the Property clinic from a reader: We recently sold our house, where we had lived

The cost of building a three-bedroom semi-detached house in the greater Dublin area has increased by €41,000 over the last four years, a new report

There is likely to be “considerable investment” in Irish social housing from private interests – both domestic and international – in the coming years, according

Property prices staged a minor rebound in May having fallen sharply the previous month, while the stock of rental properties available in the month continued

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

First-time buyers will only be required to have a deposit of 10 per cent regardless of the value of a property when applying for a

And in further signs of a dysfunctional market, prices in some parts of the country are rising at a faster pace than during the boom

The average age of a person buying their first home in Ireland has risen to 34 – which is five years older than what it

Almost 20 per cent of Irish adults who do not own their own homes believe it is beyond them because of high rents and tighter Central

The IMF has credited the Central Bank’s mortgage lending rules with steadying house prices here, saying there is no need to change them. The rules,

The controversial Central Bank mortgage rules, which have particularly affected first-time buyers, will be reviewed in the summer, the bank’s new governor has said. His comments in

Early evidence suggests that the Central Bank’s new lending restrictions have taken the “froth” out of property prices, an economist with the regulator said on

The TV ad for home insurance in which the hapless homeowners lapse into a trance while the broker outlines details of their policy surely strikes

Buying a home is the single biggest purchase of most people’s lives. They may think they’ll do it only once but, according to UK research,

A quarter of those in the 25 to 40 age group said they wanted to live in a better location, while one in 10 wanted

The Society published ‘A Clear Guide to Chartered Building Surveyors’ which outlines the key roles and responsibilities of a Chartered Building Surveyor. Read the full details

Whether it has been US firms such as Blackstone and Kennedy Wilson, Asian firms such as Oxley, or big European players such as DZ Bank,

House prices are likely to fall sharply over the next year, a leading think tank has predicted. The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has

Covid-19 has meant shuttering multiple business premises across the State. Yet tenants must continue to pay their rent and landlords must continue to service their