How will Brexit affect the housing market?

Researchers from the ESRI and the Nevin Institute told the Oireachtas Housing Committee that ideally the state should be ready to step in if Brexit led to a reduction in housing activity by private developers

Brexit housing effects to vary across the country, committee told. Pic: RollingNews.ie

Researchers from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) have told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government that ideally the state should be ready to step in if Brexit led to a reduction in housing activity by private developers.

The committee was discussing the impact Brexit will have on the Irish housing market.

Professor Kieran McQuinn of the ESRI told the committee ...