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Vacant homes costing as much as €605k to renovate as state urged to tackle high dereliction rates

An expert report warns that around a quarter of properties around Ireland are financially unviable to refurbish

Two more senior members of An Bord Pleanála leave planning body

Departure of Michelle Fagan and resignation of Maria Fitzgerald comes amid a backlog of cases at the state agency

John Walsh: The pensions time bomb will be as societally disruptive as the housing crisis

The government must start planning now to ensure that the state has the fiscal resources it will need to meet the future demands of the population

Average rent for new Dublin tenancies rises to €2,022 per month

Figures from the Residential Tenancies Board show the average national rent was in new tenancies was €1,482

Micheál Martin rules out landlord tax breaks ahead of Budget

Tánaiste says government will avoid ‘knee-jerk’ reactions when considering incentives to stem the flow of landlords out of rental sector

Housing completions expected to drop to 27,000 this year

Last week Leo Varadkar said 40,000 properties need to be delivered annually to meet demand

Housing commencements ‘flatlining’ – Goodbody report

Issues around planning are threatening the future pipeline of housing developments, according to the analysis

Developers redrawing tens of thousands of housing plans

New government rules that could allow developers to double numbers of own-door houses, a response to the increasing unviability of apartments, are sending developers back to the drawing board

Sarah Hamill: Landlords and tenants could both be aggrieved by the government’s ‘first refusal’ plan

It is hard to fully tease out the constitutional issues which may arise from the announcement that tenants will get the first chance to buy their home from their landlord, but there could be trouble ahead

Lucinda Creighton: Capitulation to SF leaves government afraid to back sensible housing policy

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael should have a basic understanding of the need for landlords in the market; instead, they have tried to regulate them out of existence as they look over their shoulder at the opposition

Aidan Regan: Are millennials really worse off than their parents? Yes – and politically, this matters

The real-wage stagnation and collapse in home ownership that marks a reverse in fortune for today’s young people is also shifting voting patterns here and abroad

Matt Cooper: Forget ‘Landlord Leo’, the real issue is the failure to deliver housing

Unless something changes, we will be stuck with under-supply, unaffordability and homelessness as long as this government lasts

Darragh O’Brien tells councils to buy 1,500 homes to prepare for evictions

The government has extended the ‘tenant in situ’ scheme which allows local authorities to buy homes for people on housing supports who are facing eviction because a landlord is selling the home

Tenants facing eviction will have legal right to buy from their landlords

Landlords selling properties will have to first offer them to existing tenants and sell to them if they match an independent sale price valuation

Eviction ban to be lifted at the end of March as government ignores calls for extension

Opposition figures have said dropping the measure will lead to a rise in homelessness.

Stanley subsidiary Kitara in talks with Belmayne residents over defect repairs

Discussions focus on scale and cost of remediation works at troubled north Dublin apartment scheme

Construction inflation to carry mica redress costs over €3bn

New estimates from an expert group show a rise of up to 15% in the cost of rebuilding houses damaged by mica, pyrite and other materials

Housebuilder Cairn Homes says surging interest rates will stop Irish house price rises

Operating profits at the company nearly doubled after a strong rise in sales

New Social Democrats leader Cairns hits out at government’s ‘housing disaster’

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Dáil he has not “thrown in the towel” on the crisis

Shrink gardens to cut house prices says Glenveagh boss

Stephen Garvey said the listed housebuilder was frustrated at delays to new guidelines that could shrink garden sizes by up to a third