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Rental inflation at 15-year high, Daft says

Number of homes available for rent on August 1 reached lowest point since 2006, when Daft began its rental report

Combined incomes of €100,000-plus required to buy Croí Cónaithe apartments

Despite government subsidies to developers, apartments built under the scheme will be out of reach for most households

Second-time buyers ‘increasingly squeezed’ out of new homes market

Stamp duty analysis shows investment funds bought 40 per cent of new homes in 2021, while state’s share rose to a quarter

Ronan consortium won’t sell part of Glass Bottle site to the state

An affordable homes plan at the site in Dublin 4 is still up in the air after the first phase was given the green light

Average rents rise 11.7% across country in biggest jump since 2016

Author of a new Daft rental report said things had ‘never been so grim’ for those seeking new rental accommodation

Government considering plan to bypass scrutiny on mica blocks bill

Department of Housing is keen to pass a bill to underpin the defective blocks scheme before the Dáil’s summer recess, but campaigners believe scrutiny is vital to make sure the legislation is satisfactory

All local authorities to be contacted over potential mica problems

Fears are growing that the defective building blocks problem, initially thought to be largely confined to the north-west, could be more widespread than imagined

Housing Agency vacant property fund falling short of target

Number of acquisitions decreased each year due to ‘reducing availability of suitable units from banks and equity funds,’ Department of Housing says

DCC on course to exceed yearly target for leasing of social housing, despite government plans to end the practice

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has committed to phasing out the practice, decried as benefiting property investors at the expense of taxpayers

Hundreds of mica homeowners in limbo as government at odds with Donegal County Council

Almost 400 applications for the mica redress scheme are stalled because a recently discovered material is not covered leading to significant disagreement between the council and the government

Rents down in new tenancies during final months of last year

Biggest decreases in Galway and South County Dublin

Developer pays over the odds for Crumlin homes close to planned apartment block

The €690,000 price was paid for each of four three-bed houses following homeowners taking legal challenge to An Bord Pleanála over Brian Durkan project

Davy shelling out bumper prices for houses already leased to Limerick Council

Several investors have flipped properties to the fund at double what they paid for them a year previously, following social housing lease agreement

Start-up aims to change Irish housebuilding finance model

Mayo company, led by former auctioneer Colm Casey and Dr Constantin Gurdgiev, intends to involve buyers in the development process

Mica blocks problem may be far more widespread than feared

Unpublished report understood to admit that defective blocks are being found in counties that were not previously known about

Nama land sales to speculators sowed seeds of current housing crisis, new report claims

Tasc, the social change think tank, says Nama ultimately “lengthened and slowed the development supply chain”, and directly contributed to the state’s housing crisis

€300,000 in overcharged rents returned to tenants following RTB investigations

The tenancy board said that most of the sanctions it has issued since 2019 have related to landlords not complying with Rent Pressure Zone limits

‘Large number’ of rental properties recorded price rises beyond caps

Landlords increasingly using rent caps as ‘a reference point or anchor point for pricing decisions,’ according to ESRI report

Migrants more likely to live in overcrowded accommodation

Non-Irish nationals also more likely to experience homelessness than Irish-born

Hundreds of homes at O’Devaney Gardens can now be sold to funds

Veto on sale of 524 homes to a ‘corporate entity’ had meant they would have to be sold to individuals or used for social housing