Housing Irish arm of investment fund behind controversial bid for 115 Maynooth homes to appoint liquidatorRound Hill Capital, which attempted to bulk buy homes in Mullen Park housing estate, has cast doubt over its future investment plans in Ireland
Mullen Park homes offered to buyers, but with 25% price hike A number of houses in the Kildare estate came on the market last week, nearly a year after the outcry over a €1 billion global investment fund’s plans to bulk-buy 155 of its properties
O’Brien welcomes new plan to sell Mullen Park homes to individual buyersA plan to sell 115 houses to a global investment fund has been called off
Michael Brennan: First-time buyers' frustrations set to continue for some time yetThe Minister for Housing and his officials are working on changes to the planning regulations that could ringfence more than 50 per cent of the units in new developments for private buyers, but there are many obstacles to be negotiated
Property funds outbid housing bodies by ‘up to €80k per home’ More than 400 units snapped up by institutional funds in the past four weeks
Generation rent is not buying the political excuses anymore As would-be buyers are shut out and the political row over the bulk purchase of starter homes in Maynooth by a billion-dollar investment fund rolls on, the government is scrambling to ensure that it does not happen again
Investors buying up housing estates is unacceptable, says TaoiseachMicheál Martin said that the issue of institutional investors buying up housing stock will be ‘examined’ following a Business Post report of Round Hill Capital snapping up most of a newly built estate
Analysis: O’Brien needs to act to make sure Mullen Park does not happen again and again The Minister for Housing will not want to scare off property investment funds entirely but he must find a way to redress the balance so that home ownership is not out of reach for so many
Global property investment firm buys most of 170-home estate in KildareRound Hill Capital to put 135 houses at Mullen Park in Maynooth on rental market after deal believed to be worth €54 million