Housing Ex-FG minister urged O’Brien to intervene in Wicklow property disputeLast year, Wicklow County Council backed out of a deal to lease homes from Arresico Ireland after it ‘consistently failed’ to deliver social housing units on time
Housing Dublin City Council spending up to 40% more to deliver homes than private developersAn audit of the local authority’s homebuilding costs showed it spent up to €150,000 more per unit than private developers to deliver social housing
Construction Circle in talks with AIB to deliver large-scale social housing project Direct-build plan for 600 homes in Dublin and adjacent counties represents a shift away from the developer-led model
Housing O’Devaney development still on hold after legal case resolvedBartra Capital won its bid to overturn ban on selling about half of homes to institutional investor, but said council work was delaying start of construction
Housing Funds told that council will not lease more homes in 33 north Dublin estatesEstate agents and property investors informed that 33 estates in north Dublin are ‘socially satisfied’ and therefore not eligible
Housing Levy on blocks will delay social homes, says housing charitySociety of Chartered Surveyors Ireland estimates that the levy will add up to €4,000 to the cost of a regular semi-detached home
Housing Plan to axe leased social housing is under ‘review’Move comes despite Taoiseach’s promise to end controversial practice, and follows fresh €450 million state investment to lease 1,000 new homes
Housing Fingal council leased social homes from British weapons dealerSpokesman says council ‘immediately moved to rectify the situation’ when it learnt properties were owned by BAE Systems pension fund
Housing British weapons dealer sells Irish houses to Davy investment fundBAE systems made €2.4m profit by divesting itself of 43 second-hand Irish homes less than a year after buying them
Housing State raises leased housing budget by €450m due to influx of Ukrainian refugees Government launched extra fund for 1,000 new-build social housing despite Taoiseach’s commitment to move away from leasing model
Housing Sisk threatened to pull out of all future social housing schemes over costsThe construction giant made the move before the government announced it would intervene to cover some construction cost inflation
Housing Dublin City Council to spend €125m on ‘turnkey’ homesThe authority has issued the tender for social and affordable units to be acquired from private developers before they are put up for sale
DCC on course to exceed yearly target for leasing of social housing, despite government plans to end the practiceTaoiseach Micheál Martin has committed to phasing out the practice, decried as benefiting property investors at the expense of taxpayers
Legal row that delayed the use of social housing units for 18 months is settledApartments bought by large investment fund RediResi had been left empty due to a dispute with South Dublin County Council
Wealthy non-EU visa-seekers pump €62m into Irish social housing in NovemberImmigrant Investor Programme gets massive influx of cash as landlords avail of ‘de-risked’ social home leasing initiatives
New social housing leases will cost state over €1.4 billionDespite government commitment to phasing the practice out, new deals are due to be signed to lease 3,500 homes at €412,000 per home over 25 years
Dublin City Council’s five-year social housing goal falls 600 short of Department’s targetUnder the Government’s Housing for All plan, an average of 9,500 new social homes are to be provided annually state-wide
MEP calls for EU state aid rules to adapt to housing crisisKim van Sparrentak acted as rapporteur for an affordable housing report produced by the European Parliament in 2020, which said that European fiscal policies were restricting member states from investing sufficiently in housing provision
Council axes deal with UK arms firm for social housing unitsThe preliminary deal with Dublin City Council had been for a mix of newly-built apartments and houses that were bought by BAE’s pension fund
Olympic star Taylor leasing investment properties to DCC for social housingThe boxing gold medallist purchased the three properties in 2020, and they are worth a total of €754,000
