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...
I came across the following interesting article from ARUP recently entitled: How do you use technology to better manage a major new road bridge? We have featured many AI-empowered sensor systems to enhance, or rather pre-empt, routine maintenance within...
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...
Listen back to the RIPPLE story and hear about the evolution of shipping container homes and business popping up all around Ireland with Ireland's property bloggers:
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...
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...
Originally published on www.thejournal.ie , April 16, 2017 Last week I was invited to speak at the Irish Planning Institute AGM in beautiful Westport. Knowing that IPI membership is made up of planners from the public and private sector, I had to work to keep an open...
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...
#PropTech There has been massive resistance within sectors of the property industry to the emerging technologies designed specifically for this industry. But resisting change is no longer an option; property technology, or #PropTech, is revolutionising 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...
A Building Bubble? 17 May 2014 13:00 The Business with Richard Curran: This week, the Government announced plans to tackle the property market. In Construction 2020, 75 action points were highlighted, but will these initiatives create a healthy market or are we on...
Even before the Government formally announced its Construction 2020 strategy earlier this week, commentators were quick to speak about against many of the 75 policy initiatives proposed. Taoiseach Enda Kenny went on to announce a suite of measures aimed at stimulating...
According to The Irish Times Commercial Property section yesterday, levies paid by property developers to Dublin City Council last year increased by a significant 70 per cent. This is great news for house-hunters and would-be property buyers who have been tracking the...