Commercial Property Irish construction firm JJ Rhatigan seeks global talent in South Africa The building company made a recruitment mission to South Africa and joined Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien on a St Patrick’s Day visit to the country
Shipping container homes can offer a real alternativeThe culmination of a volunteer-driven project may herald a new era for low-cost housing in Ireland
Let’s get our social housing in orderCarol Tallon Talking Property: The new strategy is a halfway house to solving the homeless crisis, but it’s a good start
Not singing from the same hymn sheetCarol Tallon Talking Property: If the experts cannot agree, how can buyers be expected to interpret the marketplace?
Overseas: Regenerating Spain’s abandoned villagesThe vagaries of emigration and the eccentricity of Spanish property law means some villages are being offered for free, Carol Tallon reports from Spain
Carol Tallon Talking Property: The rise of the professional landlordThey're cash-rich and they make up a fifth of the buyers in the market – but who are these ‘professional landlords’, and how do they operate?
Let’s get our social housing in orderCarol Tallon Talking Property: The new strategy is a halfway house to solving the homeless crisis, but it’s a good start.
Sale agreed – the waiting gameCarol Tallon Talking Property Properties are sale agreeing in a shorter time frame but, anecdotally, are taking much longer to actually close
Accept the things you can changeCarol Tallon, Talking Property: Leave the diamond in the rough, and pick a nice place somewhere to settle down and polish your own.
Compromise and house-hunting don't go togetherCarol Tallon Talking Property: Compromising is less about making a couple equally happy, and more about ensuring both are equally unhappy
A brief window for home buyersCarol Tallon Talking Property: The property market is set to bounce as budget measures see investors leave, so be ready to go.
Frustrating an already frustrated marketCarol Tallon Talking Property: Forget bubbles, what we have in the Irish market for the next few months is effectively a funnel
Don't make yourself at home before you buyCarol Tallon Talking Property: When viewing properties for sale, it is important not to leave your manners at the door
All the best research is done on footCarol Tallon Talking Property: Get a surveyor in, walk the neighbourhood, and talk to the locals – it’s the only way to be sure of an area.
Pay now, cash in later - but is it worth it?Carol Tallon Talking Property: Some homebuyers are overpaying today to avoid capital gains tax in seven years' time. Is this a gamble too far?
First find the soft spot, then start to squeezeCarol Tallon Talking Property: Even when it is a sellers’ market, buyers can bring pressure to bear on vendors to swing the odds in their favour.
Carol Tallon Talking Property: The news that 30 per cent of buyers are those trading up is great - releasing houses into a market short of stock.Beginning to find the positive in the negative.
Make sure that the head rules the heartDon’t be wooed by market assumptions and incentives: with property, it still comes down to buying what you can afford, when you can afford it.
Carol Tallon: More homes for buyers who are willing to waitCarol Tallon Talking Property: If purchasers play a long game, there are likely to be serious bargains a few years down the road.
Focus must now shift from token gestures to getting homes builtCarol Tallon Talking Property: Despite its recent unpopularity, the construction industry needs a helping hand