Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council signed 25-year lease on 87 Dundrum apartments for use as social housing without seeking opinion other than developer’s on rent levels

Building of public housing by local authorities has dwindled to nearly non-existent levels in our biggest cities, official figures show

Turnkey developments, built by private developers and bought by the state, are the single most expensive way to provide social housing. So why are most of our social homes built in this way?

Astra Construction posted a thirteenfold increase in after-tax profits between 2018 and 2019, while Park Developments saw a €14.8m profit over 18 months

The lengthy approval process that council social housing projects must go through is a long-standing bugbear of TDs and councillors. But is long-term leasing of social homes a worse option?

Website records its lowest ever figure for properties listed for sale, with supply collapsing by 40 per cent compared to this time in 2020

The well-known financial adviser has responded to Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy who criticised his company for selling social housing ‘as a financial product’

Rising service charges and plumbing problems were some of the complaints made by residents of high-end London apartments built by Irish development firm

Social Democrats co-leader uses Eddie Hobbs website to raise concerns about potential growth in the state’s use of long-term leasing instead of building homes

Developer plans to charge council nearly €9 million for 28 apartments designated for social housing

The land near Finglas in Dublin 15, currently inhabited by about 200 Travellers, is being looked at by Fingal County Council as a potential site or houses

The homes in Dublin and Cork are being delivered by the Land Development Agency, but critics are describing them as unaffordable to most renters

The company plans to sell 47 social housing units to the local authority for €21 million at a proposed new development on city’s northside

Hap scheme payments to landlords totalled €436 million last year and are predicted to exceed €1 billion by the end of 2021

€75m scheme to allow 2,000 people a year buy new homes criticised by opposition and ESRI as potentially driving up house prices

Irish buyers are looking for ‘European city lifestyle’ and have budgets ranging from €220,000 to €350,000

Estate agents and TDs point to the failure of a similar plan in Britain which forced prices up rather than benefiting buyers

Legal costs escalated after a jump in legal challenges to planning decisions approved by the national planning authority

Policymakers must remove barriers for first-time buyers, increase housing supply and invest in the rental market

New beds will increase existing stock in the capital of 24,000 by 17 per cent, according to Mitchell McDermott construction sector report