Ian Guider's Market Talk

Bringing in a vacant site levy might just break the housing crisis logjam

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Jeremy Masding, chief executive of PTSBMaura Hickey

Supply side holds back housing tide

Housing understandably gets plenty of mentions in the programme for government, which was unveiled last week. There’s quite a lot of sweeteners in it for all kinds of things, but where it gets fuzzy is on details and specific actions.

Possibly the biggest challenge ...