# vacant properties

This year

2023

# Housing

Councils identify over 1,500 vacant and derelict properties to be bought up

The price tag of the properties comes in at €437 million.

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Jun 20th 2023, 7:38 PM

# Island Living

Minister sets out 'positive discrimination' policy to ringfence offshore island funding

The ‘Our Living Islands’ strategy published today is the first national island policy in 27 years.

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Updated

Jun 7th 2023, 2:21 PM

Last year

2022

# vacant property tax

Census shows 166,000 vacant properties in Ireland, with over 48,000 vacant for six years

Vacant property levels have fallen 9% since 2016.

28.6k

Jun 23rd 2022, 1:27 PM

# rural ireland

Old schools, cinemas and vacant buildings to be re-vamped into work hubs and community spaces

The aim of the funding is to target dereliction in towns and villages in rural Ireland.

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Jan 6th 2022, 3:58 PM

All time

# Housing

DCC says 'no low hanging fruit' when it comes to vacant houses in the capital

The Deputy Chief Executive of the council says the assumption that there are over 30,000 plus vacant units in Dublin City needs to be diffused.

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Dec 14th 2021, 6:00 AM

# Housing

Local property tax surcharge for vacant properties under consideration as system set to be overhauled

The majority of homeowners will see a €90 increase in their tax bill next year.

32.8k

Jun 2nd 2021, 12:05 AM

# vacant properties

Banks sitting on hundreds of vacant properties as pressure ramps up on government to get radical

The last quarter of 2020 found a significant decline in buy-to-let investors in the housing market,

Three of the country's main banks have around 600 vacant properties on their books, Christina Finn writes.

The Peter McVerry Trust says anything that can be done to bring vacant properties back into use should be done.

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May 25th 2021, 12:05 AM

# Housing Crisis

PTSB boss says it has 500 vacant properties on its books

Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath described the figure as ‘extraordinarily high’.

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Apr 9th 2019, 7:33 PM

# vacant properties

Housing activists hosting national day of action today ... here's how we got to this point

Take Back the City activists have occupied a number of properties in Dublin over the past two months.

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Sep 22nd 2018, 7:30 AM

# Housing Crisis

'It shows how angry people are': Occupation of inner-city terraced house enters second day

The occupation followed a protest on Dublin’s O’Connell Street yesterday evening.

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Aug 8th 2018, 4:28 PM

# empty shops

'It's a beautiful place to live and work': Doing business in Ireland's 'most vacant' town

Donegal’s Ballybofey has recorded the State’s highest rate of empty shops and offices.

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Sep 9th 2017, 1:00 PM

# Housing

'Grossly unfair': Landlords are not happy about new plans to penalise vacant property owners

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy announced this week that penalties may be introduced for owners of vacant properties.

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Aug 16th 2017, 6:10 AM

# sitting idle

In Navan, Co Meath, there are more vacant properties than there are people on the housing waiting list

Whole swathes of the Flower Hill neighbourhood in Navan currently stand derelict.

57.2k

Jun 25th 2017, 10:00 PM

# One stone

10,000 vacant homes plus a tax incentive could solve two huge problems in Ireland

“This list is one where people could live, or have lived.”

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Oct 26th 2016, 6:03 AM

# cer

More than 1500 properties had their electricity or gas cut off in April

However, many of these may have been properties deemed vacant.

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Jun 14th 2014, 12:52 PM

Voices

Column: Here's why we turn empty properties into art spaces

“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.

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Mar 24th 2012, 6:00 PM