It’s time to embrace apartment living

Apartment living is a great city lifestyle, but poor design has seen it shunned by the Irish. In future, we should take inspiration from the Europeans

Dermot Bannon
Dermot Bannon

Last week, the Central Bank started to put in place procedures it hopes will apply the brakes to a potentially heated housing market, with the introduction of minimum deposit amounts. The aim is to arrest the start of a panic property-buying spree which seems to have taken hold, caused primarily by the lack of new homes.

While this has been welcomed by many, and there is a momentum for change, we really need ...