It has been another busy property week, with the new selling season definitely upon us but before we get carried away, it's important to reflect on what is still broken within the system. Over the past week, three people who were classified as homeless in different...
Apologies, I know that last week's offering was not up to scratch. I was too distracted by the scenic Wild Atlantic Way (Bundoran to Ballybunion!) to really knuckle down. Although, on my travels I did keep a note of all the derelict and deserted properties that we...
Estate agents in the Irish market enjoy a wide and varied role with sales and marketing at its core. While the tools of the trade have certainly changed over the past two decades, marketing is still at the core of the business. Online sales portals like Daft.ie...
The Irish Property Buyers’ Handbook is being updated for 2018 (publication date November 2017) and we want to hear from house hunters and would-be residential investors to learn about your experiences in the current market. In particular, we are interested to learn...
There is so much property news to cover today- from career moves to moving celebrities (Sinead O'Connor is selling her Wicklow home, apparently) - that bullet points will feature heavily to help us get through all the Sunday broadsheets in one day. Consider...
As expected, the weekend's newspapers are dominated by the fallout of the UK vote so the property coverage in the main sections (outside of the property supplements) is limited. As regular readers will be aware, I am a strong proponent of digital marketing and PR as a...
The expectation for today's broadsheets was a full analysis of our Housing Minister's keenly fought battle for Fine Gael leadership, which he lost out on to Leo Varadkar. Instead, all the Sunday papers, broadsheet and tabloid (with the noted exception of The Sunday...
Today's offering is not quite as chunky as last week, all of the property sections/supplements feel a bit lighter today (in property news, features and advertising). The Sunday Business Post has an excellent front page (of the Money Plus section) piece by the...
We now have twice as many house-hunters across Ireland as we have available homes For would-be property buyers in Ireland right now, it is fair to say that the goalposts have shifted, regularly. In the last week we learned that despite the yoyo Central Bank lending...
Johnny Ronan on the need for Dublin to build upwards; why can't we solve a problem that everyone agrees on & rats in Dublin's emergency accommodation facilities... Good news for property watchers with plenty of time on their hands and very patient spouses, there...
Sunday Property Round-Up Never let it be said that Irish newspapers don't offer value for money; today's line-up is jam-packed with the best property commentary I've read for months. Plenty to keep you going through the long weekend. If you only have time for one...
April 23, 2017 The Sunday Times Move If you only have time for one newspaper today, for property news, The Sunday Times is the one to get. Editor Linda Daly writes about 'A new generation of unban living - First time buyers, returnees, investors and renters want the...
A recently published book 'Atlas de la Crisis' [Atlas of the Crisis] by Ricardo Méndez of the CSIC analyzes the socioeconomic impact of six consecutive years of crisis and severe austerity policies on Spain from the years 2007 to 2013. The changes in Spain over the...
Almost eight years on from the global financial crisis that plunged property markets across the globe into a downward spiral, recovery is the latest order of business in 2015, but what does that even look like? More importantly, will investors follow strong yields or...
If the State is not in a position to deliver a solution, then its need to get out of the way of the people who can There have been many reasons to feel angry and frustrated and let down by the State about its response to housing over the past decade - many reasons -...
For more than two years I have been working with an incredibly innovative, dedicated and - most importantly - patient architect, Derek Trenaman and his team at Ceardean Design & Construction in Dublin to create the very first, fully-compliant, shipping container...