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The National Asset Management Agency increased its lifetime surplus forecast by €500 million today.
Asset management firm Investec says there are ‘few if any’ opportunities for the main construction firms.
“It’s a good snapshot of where we were.”
2016 alone saw the resolution of 248 developments.
South Dublin County Council is the first local authority area to have zero unfinished developments.
The ‘bad bank’ has identified almost 7,000 properties that are potentially suitable for social housing, with demand being confirmed for over 2,700.
Over three-quarters of all unfinished estates have people already living in them.
40 of the country’s worst ghost estates were targeted for destruction this time last year, but a rising economic tide means that number is coming down…
Everything you need to know in one quick guided tour.
Another ghost is being banished, in Co Roscommon…
The occupied buildings have been dubbed “The Courtyards of Dignity”.
The Athy estate has been finished following an initiative between NAMA and Clúid.
Families are still living in 992 ghost estates in Ireland.
In Dublin, however, commencements rose by eleven per cent as demand for housing in the capital bounces back.
The Minister for Housing says that progress is being made on unfinished housing estates.
None of the estates being considered by the government for demolition are currently occupied.
Minister of State Jan O’Sullivan also spoke of Ireland’s ghost estates, the pyrite crisis, and her plans to end homelessness.
What percentage of 13-year-old turn to their dads for sex and relationship advice? How many eggs narrowly missed Taoiseach Enda Kenny?
Ireland’s problems with unfinished housing developments have improved but new figures from the National Housing Development Survey outline just how many vacant dwellings there are and where the problem is worst.
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Minister Jan O’Sullivan said today that some estates are finished and hundreds more are being worked on – but some will have to be demolished.
What would you do with Ireland’s ghost estates?
Will the demolition of 12 apartments outside Longford mark the start of a new nationwide programme of deconstruction?
Up to 25,000 construction jobs will be created, according to chairman Frank Daly.
Over one in five vacant properties were holiday homes, while the majority of the remainder were concentrated on rural areas in the west.
“Raise the shutters on a vacant unit, and life returns to an area”: Arts initiative PrettyvacanT Dublin on bringing energy through art back to abandoned buildings.
Group of friends urge fellow citizens to help Ireland’s 600 ghost estates return to nature rather than blight the landscape – Frank Armstrong describes one guerilla planting session in Co Leitrim.
Art initiative PrettyvacanT Dublin is repurposing empty spaces for cultural purposes – its latest show responds to “post-Crash Ireland”.
The country has whole ‘ghost cities’ as well!
In tonight’s Fix: Facebook to make major changes after Irish investigation; a possible solution for ghost estates; and the worst delivery man you’ll see today.
Nama has agreed to provide the houses, which were built during the boom but are now lying empty.
The latests National Housing Survey involved inspections of 2,876 developments around the country.
It will be a long process but the Minister wants to look at using so-called ghost estates for much needed social housing.
The National Housing Conference is told that the growing population will require 30,000 new houses every year from 2012.
One savvy operator has started a ‘grown-up sandpit’ – where users pay to play with full-size diggers and bulldozers.
On a visit to Portugal, former trader Nick Leeson finds a country that will find it more difficult to recover than Ireland – and shows that Moody’s got our credit rating dive wrong.
In your Fix for today: A cheaper route to Dublin airport?; the end of the World; a remorseful Archbishop; how the Taoiseach is spending his weekend; and why Ken Doherty has an issue with neck ties.