5+ hour, 56+ min ago  (585+ words) Annual Irish home price inflation was static between April and May, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) said on Wednesday, as prices continued to rise at their slowest pace since February 2024, adding to evidence of a tentative cooling off in some…...

17+ hour, 4+ min ago  (425+ words) The Irish Times HSE closing in on €40m purchase of landmark Dublin 4 property State’s health authority assembling large and valuable landbank next to St Vincent’s University Hospital The Health Service Executive (HSE) is understood to be closing in…...

17+ hour, 4+ min ago  (835+ words) Cliches about Irish people moving to Sydney are widespread. It’s said they go to escape Ireland’s bad weather and high costs for a relaxed life of beach fun and casual jobs. And many young Irish do arrive to pursue this…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (531+ words) Householders aged over 50 who are “stuck” in large properties want solutions allowing them to downsize, freeing up larger homes for families, according to a housing organisation representing older homeowners. The organisation argues there is a “major housing policy blind spot…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (635+ words) The cost-rental system, designed to provide homes for low and middle income workers, is facing growing viability challenges in Dublin, the State’s Housing Agency has said. Increasing construction and maintenance costs are putting pressure on the ability to provide cost-rental…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (836+ words) Cost rental is a form of intermediate housing introduced for households who earn too much to be eligible for social housing, but not enough to afford private rents. The Government wants to build 2,000 cost-rental units a year. It is used…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (608+ words) A vacant Dublin building is to be sold on the open market after its owner, the Health Service Executive, failed to secure the interest of any State body in making use of it. The Weir Home, an Edwardian nurses’ home…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (506+ words) There have been some strange design ideas through the years, but what would you say if an architect suggested you make your house smaller? Maria Cheung and Maggie O’Brien’s home in Greystones, Co Wicklow, had been a child of the…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (660+ words) The owners of Teddington Cottage say they rescued “a fragile classic” from the brink of dereliction when they bought the property in 1984. More than four decades later, the house stands as proof that careful restoration can outlast even the grandest…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (487+ words) Landlord Ires Reit has been refused permission for a new apartment block in Tallaght, Dublin, following an appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála. The property group had applied for permission in January to build a six-storey block of 38 apartments on a 0.34 hectare…...