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Also posted in General, Home, Property News, The Investor, The Overseas Investor
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Tagged 1963 Planning Act, Cabra Park, flats, Grove Park, North Circular Road, Paul Kelly, planning permission, Private Residential Tenancies Board, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, TV satellite dishes
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Less than 10% of flats surveyed in Dublin have ever been the subject of an application for planning permission, and most of these applications were for TV satellite dishes. The 1963 Planning Act made it illegal to subdivide a house into flats without planning permission. The report compiled for the council by Paul Kelly of [...]
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Also posted in General, Home, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Tagged Ann Marie Caulfield, Dublin, Jan O'Sullivan, Minister for Housing and Planning, Private Residential Tenancy Board, PRTB, rents
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A new national index shows that rents nationwide rose by 2% in the first three months of this year compared to the same time last year. The survey from the Private Residential Tenancy Board is based on the board’s own register of over 277,000 tenancies. It reveals the actual rents being paid for properties as [...]
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Also posted in General, Home, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, The First Time Buyer, The Investor, The Overseas Investor, The Seller
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Tagged credit ratings agency, economic recovery, house prices, housing, market, rents, Standard & Poor’s, wages
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Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s have insisted that house prices have now stabilised in Ireland. However, they insist that recovery in the market might still be some way off. The report said that prices had now fallen to a level that meant they were reasonably priced when compared with wages and with rents. The [...]
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Also posted in General, Home, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, The Investor, The Overseas Investor
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Tagged bathrooms, bedsit, Bob Jordan, Dublin City Council, flats, housing, landlords, Minister for Housing, NCT, North Circular Road, sub-standard, Threshold, unsafe
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National housing charity Threshold has called on the government to introduce an ‘NCT for housing’ to force landlords to improve sub-standard housing. Dublin City Council’s recent “bedsit blitz” inspected 1,500 flats and found that 90% are not fit to live in. The North Circular Road was a particular black spot. Problems included unsafe electrics, no [...]
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Tagged Big Brother, broadcasting charge, database, Friday feedback, MyHome, MyHome.ie, property tax, Revenue Commissioners, social welfare payments, TV licence, wages
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The new property tax is almost upon us and no matter what your feeling on the subject is, it certainly looks like there is no way to avoid it. Whether you meet next month’s deadline to return your assessment to the Revenue Commissioners or not, they insist they will start deducting the payments from anyone [...]
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Tagged chairman, deadline, Josephine Feehily, Local Property Tax, pay, PAYE, payments, property tax, Revenue Commissioners, social welfare
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Revenue Commissioners chairman Josephine Feehily has warned that they will begin deducting the local property tax from people’s pay or social welfare payments from as early as June, if they refuse to pay the charge before the deadline. In an update on the progress of the new tax yesterday, Ms Feehily said her department had [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Also posted in Industry News, Property News
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Tagged Catriona Walsh, Dr Eoin O’Sullivan, Ensor O’Connor Solicitors, Health Services Executive, Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers, IPAV, John Fitzgerald, Minister for the Environment, Mr Conn Murray, Mr Joe Meehan, Mr John Tiernan, Mr Tim Ryan, Ms Tricia Sheehy Skeffington, Noel Merrick, Paul Flood, Paula O'Reilly, phil hogan, Private Residential Tenancies Board, PRTB, Residential Tenancies Act, Rhonda Donaghey
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Five appointments have been made to the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), bringing the board membership to 12 persons. Ms Catriona Walsh has been appointed as Chairperson. Ms Walsh is a partner with Ensor O’Connor Solicitors. The other Board members, appointed by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Mr Phil Hogan TD [...]
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Also posted in General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News, The First Time Buyer
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Tagged Central Statistics Office, costs, CSO, decrease, energy, housing, increase, inflation, Mortgage, Private rents, property tax, rent, rents
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Private rents rose by 1% during the month of March, according to the latest inflation figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The latest increase follows a modest rise of 0.3% in the first two months of the year. Rents have been steadily increasing though with increases of 0.7% in December, 0.6% in November, 0.7% [...]
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Also posted in General, Home, Industry News, Property News
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Tagged bed sit, bedsit, Dublin, flats, housing, inspection, inspectors, landlords, North Circular Road, regulations, rental, units
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Housing inspectors conducting a sweep of flats in Dublin have found the vast majority of flats inspected to be in breach of regulations. They have visited 589 flats on the North Circular Road and issued warning letters in respect of 483. Dublin City Council says its “intensified inspection programme” will involve up to 6,000 [...]
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Tagged accommodation, Aideen Hayden, Irish, Jan O'Sullivan, Labour, landlords, law, Minister for Housing and Planning, regulations, rental, rental sector, Seanad, Senator, sub-standard, sub-standard accommodation
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Labour Senator Aideen Hayden has welcomed the end of the existence of bedsits, which were outlawed under new laws that came into force last Friday. Speaking in the Seanad, Senator Hayden said: “As from February 1st, the traditional bedsit is no longer permitted under Irish Law. This change did not come about overnight and was [...]
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