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Is there still value in the Irish commercial property market? <img src=”http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=8946263&cv=2.0&cj=1″ /> Last year saw sustained recovery in the Irish commercial property market with Dublin leading the way. Investors from all corners of the globe have been enthusiastically acquiring…

  Today’s Sherry Fitzgerald property price study showing house price growth for the year at 18pc in Dublin and 13.9pc for the rest of the country, is not nearly as strong as predicted earlier and bears out the more muted…

House prices here are growing faster than during the boom, according to the Central Bank. The bank said this week in its Macro Financial Review that the growing rise in house prices posed a danger to our economic recovery and…

The Central Bank The Irish housing market is currently dysfunctional. We are facing a shortage of house stock in Dublin. Rising house prices and rents are increasing due to the lack of supply Mortgage rates could fall by 2pc under…

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1119/660616-water-charges/   The second is the cost of giving the water conservation grant to the 20% of households who are not customers of Irish water. This will cost €64m per year. Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly announced the revised…

    http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/one-in-five-buyers-believes-they-can-borrow-more-than-central-bank-limit-30731418.html   One in five buyers believes they can borrow more than Central Bank limit – Independent.ie Nationally, the number of residential and commercial property transactions will hit 50,000 over the next 12 months.The findings are from a…

Bank of Ireland repossessed 621 owner-occupied or buy-to-let properties in the first half of this year, according to documents submitted to the Oireachtas finance committee in advance of the appearance by its chief executive Richie Boucher today. Bank of Ireland…