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A house for sale at The Grove in Lucan

Good news for market as homes begin to sell off plans again

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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Two of the local authorities in the capital could be set to reduce their development levies

Dublin councils set to reduce development levies

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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Brooklawn House

Dublin office block to sell for €32m off peak

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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Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

Ó Caoláin feels mortgage debt crisis has contributed to increase in suicides

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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Deputy Joe Higgins

Higgins defends use of expenses to campaign against household charge

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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Ghost estate in Kerry up for grabs in latest Allsop Space auction

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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Kevin McCloud

McCloud describes a lot of the building here as a “pile of crap”

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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NAMA

NAMA demanding tax returns from developers

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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