Market Talk

Peter Bacon’s expertise may be needed again to find out just what on earth is going on in the housebuilding sector

Peter Bacon was the man to call if you needed help solving a housing problem

Peter Bacon was the man to call if you needed help solving a housing problem. His expertise has been called on by multiple governments over the years. Three times in the course of the Bertie Ahern years, Bacon was asked to look at solutions to cool down rampant and seemingly unstoppable house price inflation.

Brian Cowen’s government also sought him out to come up with ways of solving the problem of the toxic ...