Housing Living with mica: ‘It’s bulls**t about this being a full 100% redress grant, it’s just insulting’Owners of crumbling homes say they cannot afford the repairs on their unsafe, leaking properties — and the government’s redress scheme designed to end the mica crisis is instead prolonging the trauma
Housing Construction inflation risks scuppering social housing projects, expert group warnsIrish Council for Social Housing tells Oireachtas committee that approved housing bodies are finding it harder to secure sufficient levels of professional indemnity when obtaining loans
Housing Experts raised questions over ‘ambitious’ €450m subsidised homes planRecords reveal that property industry and banking sector lobbyists at a ‘stakeholder engagement meeting’ questioned the Croí Cónaithe scheme’s ‘ambitious’ timeline and raised concerns about overall demand for apartments
Housing Developer rails against ‘diabolical’ process as Coolock housing plan is rejectedHaving rezoned the former Chivers factory site from commercial to residential, developer Andrew Gillick wanted to build 550 affordable units for ‘normal people’. But then began a long and ill-fated email exchange with the Land Development Agency
The Last Post Matt Cooper: Deluge of Saudi cash threatens to wash out Europe’s flagship golf eventsThis week’s Horizon Irish Open in Mount Juliet has a prize fund of €6m, and will be fighting for TV viewers against LIV’s $25m exhibition in Portland
Housing ‘Majority of homes damaged by defective blocks need to be knocked down’ Expert on concrete technology says if there are cracks in the walls ‘and at the same time you have internal sulphates discovered . . . you don’t have an option – you have to demolish’
Legal State’s plan to take money won in mica legal actions is ‘probably unconstitutional’, law firm warnsColeman Legal has urged the government to ‘immediately’ withdraw a provision that means the state will take over legal actions taken by homeowners if they’re signed up to its redress scheme
Housing Faulty blocks scheme ‘inflexible, cynical, illogical and blinkered’, mica campaigners claimHomeowners told the housing committee the scheme will in reality be closer to an 80 per cent grant than the 100 per cent redress promised by the government
Housing ‘Significant’ slowdown in house prices to come over next nine months Increase in interest rates combined with overvaluation during pandemic will reduce growth rate of prices, according to head of the ESRI’s economics unit
Housing Mica homeowners will not be able to take legal action if they sign up to state’s redress scheme The clause, contained in the general scheme of the mica bill, is likely to impact hundreds of homeowners who have signed up to a legal action
inflation Taoiseach rules out monthly measures to tackle cost of living Worst of the crisis could yet lie ahead as the impact of energy inflation hits households over the winter, Micheál Martin warns
Housing Dan O’Brien: What if we asked multinationals to add to the national housing stock?The multinational sector, which is high-wage and high-value added, is another source of accommodation demand so asking multinationals who seek permits to add to the housing stock is not an unreasonable request
Housing Numbers buying homes in capital surges 55 per cent, says DNGEstate agent tells Dublin property owners that it’s a seller’s market and that premium prices are being achieved as lack of supply continues
Economics Housing plans at risk as cost of building materials continue to soar, Central Bank warnsThe regulator says mismatch between the demand and supply of homes is pushing prices to new highs, while rents are increasing at fastest rate in six years
Housing Property funds bulk buy 350 homes despite ‘Mullen Park’ stamp duty levyFigures show that the funds have spent over €100 million since the government attempted to limit the practice
Politics Lucinda Creighton: Higgins’s railing on policy issues is as predictable as it is inappropriateHis narrow constitutional role has never stopped Michael D Higgins from championing a jaded and dangerous Marxist ideology and attacking Ireland’s open, liberal economic model
Housing Developer warns zoning limits risk stifling housing projects in north DublinBallymore told Fingal County Council it was disappointed by the lack of land zoned for residential development in the new development plan
Housing TDs to hold hearings on mica scheme as new bill to bypass regular scrutiny Housing committee will hold public meetings next week but has agreed to the government’s request to waive pre-legislative scrutiny of the defective blocks bill
Housing No records kept of Croí Cónaithe meeting with industry lobbyistsProperty industry and banks helped design the scheme, which gives developers subsidies of between €25,000 and €144,000 per unit to build apartments
Housing Firms buying up homes in attempt to secure workers as housing crisis deepensThe trend has become apparent amid huge labour shortages and a paucity of affordable rental accommodation