By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Posted in Building, General, Home, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, The First Time Buyer, The Investor
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Also tagged boom, construction, developments, Dublin, estate agents, family homes, homes, negative equity, planning permission, plans, property market, Savills
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The property market has given one of its clearest signs yet that it may be recovering with the news that developers have started to sell new homes off plans for the first time in more than five years. With a dwindling supply of good quality family homes in major urban areas such as Dublin, many [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Posted in Building, Commercial, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Also tagged capital, commercial, development, development levies, development properties, Dublin City Council, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, Fingal County Council, industrial, land, levy, Local Authorities, market, proposals, reductions, residential, South Dublin County Council
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Two local authorities in the capital have announced proposals to reduce their development levies in a bid to encourage developers to commence work on development properties. Dublin City Council plans to reduce the level of contributions for residential development from €156.62 per sqm to €115.21 and the levy for industrial and commercial projects from €127 [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Posted in Commercial
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Also tagged Ballsbridge, Brooklawn House, D2 Property Management, Dublin 4, G&T Crampton, Irish office, peak, property bubble, Savills, Shelbourne Road, sold
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A MODERN office building off Shelbourne Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, sold at the peak of the property bubble in April 2006 for a highly-inflated value of €47 million, is about to change hands again for a mere €15 million. An international company with an Irish office is to avail of the 68 per cent [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Posted in General, Home, Mortgages & Money, Property News
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Also tagged banks, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, constituency, debt, Fianna Fáil, health spokesperson, house prices, mental health, mortgage debt, poverty, property bubble, property speculators, regulators, Sinn Féin, suicide, suicide rates
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Sinn Féin health spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD said in the Dáil yesterday that the mortgage debt crisis is having a damaging effect on people’s mental health and is contributing to the rise in suicide rates. Deputy Ó Caoláin said: “As a Dáil deputy working in my constituency and as my party’s health spokesperson I am [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged anti-household charge campaign, austerity, bondholders, campaign, court summons, Dáil, Deputy, household charge, householders, Socialist, Socialist Party, travel allowance
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Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins is defending the use of a Dáil travel allowance to fund his role in the anti-household charge campaign. Deputy Higgins said it is entirely justifiable for TDs to use their expenses to travel the country campaigning against the tax. “I believe that the allowance that is facilitated to me as [...]
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By The MyHome Newsdesk
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Posted in General, Industry News, Mortgages & Money, Property News, Property Picks, The Investor, The Seller
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Also tagged Allsop, Allsop Space, AllsopSpace, Annagh Banks, Athy, Auction, Castlemaine, commercial, Denzille Lane, Dublin, Georgian, ghost estate, Holles Street, Ireland, Kerry, Kildare, Merrion Square, MyHome, MyHome.ie, property, Rathmines, reserve, residential, Shelbourne Hotel, Sir John Talbot, The Irish Times, townhouse, unfinished estate, units, Viceroy
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A housing estate made up of 14 unfinished houses, a 700-year-old castle and an 8,000sq ft Georgian building on Dublin’s Merrion Square are three of the lots set to go under the hammer at the next Allsop Space auction on July 6th. The unfinished housing development at Annagh Banks in Castlemaine, Co Kerry, is being [...]
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The presenter of Channel 4 programme Grand Designs has described much of the housing that has been built here in the last decade as “extremely poor”. Conservationist Kevin McCloud was speaking on a trip here yesterday as a guest of Coillte, during which he described the downturn in the construction industry in Ireland as a [...]
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The National Asset Management Agency is demanding tax returns from some developers in an effort to ensure they are being up-front about disclosing the full extent of their assets to the agency. In some cases – where developers are being unco-operative and NAMA believes they are hiding the full extent of their properties and other [...]
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