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Karl Deeter

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Articles from Karl Deeter

Mortgages are finally moving with the times

Recent advances in fintech have meant that mortgage approval has gone from hours to seconds while also becoming more cost competitive
  • Karl Deeter
  • February 7, 2021

New brokers’ rules will only penalise potential clients

A hospitality ban is good, but removing the ability to call yourself ‘independent’ if you only charge via fee misses the point
  • Karl Deeter
  • September 29, 2019

The Central Bank can’t claim the credit

House price inflation has slowed over the last year - and the reason might be as simple as supply and demand
  • Karl Deeter
  • June 30, 2019

Back to the future as it’s 2006 all over again

With rent and skilled labour costs on the up, the housing bubble still refuses to burst. But for how much longer?
  • Karl Deeter
  • June 23, 2019

Planning system is root of housing problems – reform it now

Extended delays caused by third-party objections are ramping up building costs and causing housing supply shortages
  • Karl Deeter
  • June 9, 2019

The first rule of Baby Boomer Club: don’t talk about it

Young people can’t afford to buy homes because the wealth is being held by the older generation – and we’re all okay with it
  • Karl Deeter
  • May 19, 2019

State needs to be less greedy on construction

About 40 per cent of the cost of a new home goes towards government costs and taxes. This needs to change
  • Karl Deeter
  • May 12, 2019

Tell you what I want (and why we won’t get it)

We have strongly held views about housing - but we won’t pull the trigger. So nothing gets done
  • Karl Deeter
  • May 5, 2019

Some incompatible objectives are holding us back

Even with the supposedly perfect housing solution, as seen in Vienna, we’d still have 6,500 homeless people in Dublin
  • Karl Deeter
  • April 28, 2019

Helping those who can already help themselves

If you’re able to provide for yourself, then the state shouldn’t intercede to provide you with personal or corporate welfare
  • Karl Deeter
  • April 14, 2019

Time to do the Viennese waltz on social housing

A new presentation makes clear that the Austrian housing model is something we in Ireland could learn from
  • Karl Deeter
  • April 7, 2019

What you hear, as opposed to what you’re told

There is a disconnect in the planning process that means designing in response to what people are saying they want and need will frequently get you a firm ‘No’
  • Karl Deeter
  • March 31, 2019

Down to the woods to go up in the world

Let’s stop talking about ‘high-rise’ buildings and call them ‘mid-rise’ instead. And while we’re at it, throw some wood on the pile
  • Karl Deeter
  • March 17, 2019

Why we need to raise the property tax

Using property tax to fund social and affordable housing is not a radical idea: it is done elsewhere as a matter of course
  • Karl Deeter
  • March 10, 2019

Where have all the towers gone?

Every time conservation-ists moan about the loss of a little bit of skyline, we should celebrate new buildings housing more people
  • Karl Deeter
  • March 3, 2019

Benefiting the wealthy, forsaking the needy

Our farcical social housing system is undercharging those who can afford private sector rent, while denying those who cannot
  • Karl Deeter
  • February 24, 2019

Hap flaw will only exacerbate the crisis

Senseless policy error effectively forces landlords to evict non-paying social housing tenants
  • Karl Deeter
  • February 17, 2019

Killing the cure won’t help anybody

Let’s intervene with assistance for those that need it, rather than a blanket move that does more damage to innocent parties
  • Karl Deeter
  • February 10, 2019

Yes, Hap is social housing

Harking back to the construction figures of the 1950s, an awful decade, is irrelevant
  • Karl Deeter
  • February 3, 2019

‘Lower property tax’ might sound good, but ‘local services that work’ need to be paid for

In Ireland, we want ‘all in together’ on the receiving of beneficial outcomes, but ‘tax somebody else’ when it comes to supporting the cost of this
  • Karl Deeter
  • January 27, 2019

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