‘At the end of the day, people buy their houses to live in them’

The RTE programme hypothesising a collapse in property values may have triggered a debate about where the housing market is going, but the new president of the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute (IAVI), is unequivocal in his opinion of it.

The RTE programme hypothesising a collapse in property values may have triggered a debate about where the housing market is going, but the new president of the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute (IAVI), is unequivocal in his opinion of it.

Robert Ganly, a director of Dublin estate agency Ganly Walters, described Futureshock - Property Crash as ‘‘the greatest load of rubbish I have ever seen’’.

‘‘As a programme it was so totally unbalanced ...