Editor’s note: It’s Groundhog Year as winter 2020 blurs into winter 2021

Things may feel as unsettling and uncertain as they did last year, but there are positive signs, with economists projecting total investment values in the real estate sector of some €4.5 billion

The construction sector came back with a bang in the second half of the year. Commencement Notices data show that in the year to September 2021, 30,519 residential units were commenced, up 40 per cent year-on-year

We’ve arrived at the final property supplement of the year and it’s starting to feel a lot like Ground Hog Day for a myriad of reasons.

It feels like the everyday humdrum of getting on with living under the protracted presence of the invisible coronavirus is obscuring time. In the absence of having the freedom to enjoy celebratory occasions as we traditionally would – births, milestone birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduations and even funerals – or ...