# Housing

February

February 2023

Minister indicates targeted and universal cost-of-living measures on the cards as talks intensify

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he plans to make announcement about new and extended cost-of-living measures in mid-February.

8.5k

Feb 10th 2023, 1:13 PM

# Mortgages

Government-backed mortgage offers are set to get bigger from March

Houses valued up to €360,000 in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, South Dublin, Dublin City, Fingal, Wicklow and Kildare will soon be eligible for the loan.

14.7k

Feb 7th 2023, 3:24 PM

# accommodation crisis

McGrath: 'Plea for large buildings to house refugees reflects the strain the system is under'

Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman has made an urgent plea to his colleagues for accommodation assistance.

16.6k

Feb 3rd 2023, 10:39 AM

# Housing

Govt to make a call on eviction ban 'shortly', says Taoiseach

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he hasn’t thrown in the towel on the housing crisis.

Feb 1st 2023, 2:18 PM

# rent credit

'Exceptionally high volume' of calls to RTB leading to backlog on queries about renters' credit

Green Party TD Patrick Costello said that the RTB are overburdened and don’t have the resources they currently need.

13.7k

Updated

Feb 1st 2023, 11:28 AM

# Mortgages

Ireland had the highest number of mortgage drawdowns last year since 2008

That’s according to two reports published today by the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland.

7.9k

Feb 1st 2023, 6:00 AM

January

January 2023

# Housing Crisis

Business group Ibec warns housing crisis is 'critical barrier to growth and business investment'

It has offered some key recommendations which the group claims would ‘cut the cost of new home by €30,000′.

7.2k

Jan 30th 2023, 9:24 AM

# Asylum Seekers

26 additional asylum seekers unable to be accommodated by State

A total of 81 international protection applicants could not be housed this week.

12.9k

Jan 28th 2023, 4:48 PM

# Homelessness

Homelessness record broken again as 11,632 people in emergency accommodation in December

The Department of Housing published the figures this afternoon.

The Department of Housing published the figures this afternoon.

A total of 8,190 adults and 3,442 children were living in emergency accommodation during the week of 19 to 25 December.

Focus Ireland has called these figures "shameful".

22.5k

Updated

Jan 27th 2023, 4:59 PM

# Social Housing

Initial social housing targets not met as Housing Department revises new builds to approx 7,500

The Department of Housing has cast doubt on figures issued in an official briefing note to Minister Paschal Donohoe.

5.9k

Jan 26th 2023, 5:43 PM

# Planning Permission

Over 28,700 units of large developments are awaiting An Bord Pleanála permission

That’s according to a report from consultants Mitchell McDermott.

9.8k

Jan 26th 2023, 7:28 AM

# factcheck

FactCheck: Did the state build more social housing in 2022 than ever before, as Taoiseach claimed?

“We’ve never built more social housing than was the case of the past year,” The Taoiseach said.

18.1k

Jan 23rd 2023, 5:06 PM

# Ukraine

CityWest refugee centre to close to new arrivals 'in a matter of days', says O'Gorman

The UN’s refugee agency warned that ‘urgent intervention’ is needed to prevent large numbers of people becoming homeless here.

26.7k

Updated

Jan 19th 2023, 9:30 PM

# Housing

New scheme to repair Celtic Tiger-era defective apartments set to cost up to €2.5 billion

50% to 80% of apartments built between 1991 and 2013 are estimated to have at least one defect.

18.3k

Updated

Jan 18th 2023, 12:39 PM

# Housing

Threshold says 40% of tenancy terminations for property sale were invalid in last quarter of 2022

The charity’s advisors supported 17,012 individuals in the last quarter of 2022.

18.2k

Jan 17th 2023, 6:30 AM

# ukrainians in ireland

Difficult to rule out future use of tents for asylum seekers, says junior Minister

Peter Burke, the Minister of State for European Affairs, said that housing refugees was a ‘wartime situation’.

10.8k

Jan 14th 2023, 4:25 PM

# Housing

Value of mortgages increase by 16.8% in 12 months: banking lobby report

The value of first-time buyers’ mortgages rose 1.4% year-on-year, according to the report.

8.3k

Jan 13th 2023, 7:08 AM

# Housing Assistance Payment

There were just 41 properties available to rent for people accessing HAP last month

HAP is a form of rental benefit payment to assist lower-income households.

9.1k

Jan 13th 2023, 6:30 AM

# Damien English

Property questions take out another minister but this resignation is different to the Troy saga

English’s resignation is solely due to a 2008 planning application.

Fine Gael TD Damien English resigned his position as Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment today.

The Meath West TD resigned solely due to a 2008 planning application in which he failed to declare he owned a house.

Public scrutiny of politicians’ ownership of housing has ramped up in recent months following the controversy surrounding TD Robert Troy and his properties.

13.9k

Jan 12th 2023, 3:01 PM

# Housing Crisis

Landlord tax breaks 'not off the table' as judgement call to be made before end of March

At a summit with housing stakeholders held yesterday in Government Buildings, a number of proposals are understood to have been put forward to benefit landlords.

15.7k

Jan 11th 2023, 6:10 AM

# rent pressure zone

Minister to assess how co-living developments can be brought under rent legislation

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has said he has always been opposed to co-living developments.

12.8k

Jan 10th 2023, 8:00 PM

# housing for all

Housing targets expected to be revised upwards as Govt considers buying up apartments

The summit comes as homelessness figures broke new records for the fifth month in a row.

23.3k

Updated

Jan 10th 2023, 3:50 PM

# first home

Housing minister rejects warning government scheme may push up house prices

Darragh O’Brien said he does not believe a state-backed scheme will have any “major implications” on driving up house price inflation.

21.1k

Jan 9th 2023, 7:43 PM

# Housing

Average house prices now almost eight times average wage, reaching near-Celtic Tiger levels

The median asking price for a home in the fourth quarter of 2022 was €330,000.

17.9k

Jan 3rd 2023, 6:30 AM

# airbnb

Short-term letting rules were 'destined to fail' after only 50 planning permissions granted

In total, there were 16,181 homes available to rent on Airbnb as of 21 December.

21.3k

Jan 2nd 2023, 6:30 AM

Last year

2022

# Housing

Covid-style response must be adopted to tackle housing crisis, says Varadkar

The Taoiseach said the Government needs to turn the corner on housing as it is causing inter-generational division.

16.2k

Dec 29th 2022, 6:49 AM

# Housing

Taoiseach keen to see more modular homes built to tackle housing crisis

Houses built off site in factories have already been used to accommodate Ukrainian refugees in Ireland.

23.1k

Dec 24th 2022, 12:08 PM

# Interview

All sectors will get 'fair hearing' on taxation if SF gets into power, McDonald insists

If in government, Sinn Féin would reduce the inheritance tax threshold to €300,000.

12.1k

Dec 23rd 2022, 6:30 AM

# Poll

In 2009, 60% of people thought it was a 'good time' to buy a house. Now? That figure is 14%

That has dropped from 60% in December 2009.

21.9k

Dec 23rd 2022, 12:05 AM

# Housing Crisis

Taoiseach to meet experts in housing in the coming weeks as Govt attempt to kick-start acceleration plan

So are we heading Housing for All 2.0?

14.2k

Dec 22nd 2022, 12:05 AM

# Landlords

Housing minister: 'I'll be frank, we've got to revisit the tax treatment for small landlords'

In an interview with The Journal, the housing minister said tax measures is one way to keep landlords in the market.

In an interview with The Journal, Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien said the tax treatment of landlords is something the government will discuss further.

Small landlords are continuing to leave the market, said the minister.

Pressure will be put on local authorities to ramp up their delivery of homes next year.

44.8k

Dec 21st 2022, 12:05 AM

THE MORNING LEAD

Dublin property price ceilings under First Home Scheme to increase to €475,000

A report by

Christina Finn

Maximum property price ceilings are to increase from 1 January.

Maximum property price ceilings under the First Home Scheme for every county are to increase on 1 January, Political Correspondent Christina Finn reports.

Price caps for Dublin City; Cork City; Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, and South Dublin are to increase from €450,000 to €475,000.

Since its launch in July, 2,400 people have registered under the scheme.

29.1k

Dec 20th 2022, 12:05 AM

# Waterford

Council's housing chief 'loath' to axe need for homeless to require local link for emergency beds

Local authorities have previously been told by the housing minister to drop the policy for anyone seeking an emergency bed.

14.1k

Dec 17th 2022, 6:00 AM

# Banks

Tánaiste says there are no current plans to reintroduce mortgage interest relief

Varadkar said there are no plans currently but it’s not something the Government would rule out for the future.

15.8k

Dec 15th 2022, 1:33 PM

# PLANNING LAW REFORMS

Taoiseach says overhauling planning laws 'essential' to delivering climate and housing targets

TDs also raised concerns about the Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill today.

11.4k

Dec 14th 2022, 4:58 PM

# Housing

Councils to secure proportion of any land value increase arising from residential zoning decisions

Land value increases when planning decisions are made to zone land, with the uplift going to the landowners or developers, but not to the State.

16.1k

Dec 14th 2022, 6:15 AM

# Housing

Coalition parties may clash over planning reforms as Green ministers flag concerns at Cabinet

Green Party members have raised concerns about restricting access to justice.

10.0k

Dec 13th 2022, 10:06 PM

# Housing Crisis

Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien wins Dáil confidence vote by 86 votes to 63

A motion of no confidence was tabled by People Before Profit-Solidarity.

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Updated

Dec 13th 2022, 8:16 PM

# Executive Decisions

Cabinet approves international surrogacy policy proposals with aim of giving 100s of families a 'route to recognition'

A busy Cabinet session also saw Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien bring draft laws to overhaul Ireland’s planning system.

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Updated

Dec 13th 2022, 3:34 PM

# objections

Minister says there should be 'clarity' about who is taking cases against planning decisions

Darragh O’Brien denied that resident groups are being targeted by a new bill.

19.4k

Dec 12th 2022, 9:43 AM