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Investors spend €180m bulk-buying homes despite higher stamp duty levy

Increased taxes were introduced in an effort to discourage funds from bulk-purchasing properties in housing estates

Building body advises state to foster ‘green flipping’ model to boost retrofitting numbers

Stamp duty should be paid not by investors looking to retrofit and flip properties, but by the eventual buyer, says a new Chartered Institute of Building report

Property funds bulk buy 350 homes despite ‘Mullen Park’ stamp duty levy

Figures show that the funds have spent over €100 million since the government attempted to limit the practice

Reports Allianz has paused investment in Irish housing market are ‘misleading’

The company says it has made a number of real estate investments in Ireland and it would continue to do so

John Walsh: The government must stop backtracking on the need for institutional investors

It’s a no-brainer that large funds have to be part of the solution to the housing crisis, whatever the populist cheerleaders might say

State plan to lease 2,400 homes from funds is set to cost almost €1 billion

New records show the government has little or no idea of the scale of activity being engaged in by institutional funds in this country