19+ hour, 7+ min ago   (424+ words) Landowners struggling to develop their residentially zoned sites in Dublin, with or without planning permission, are being sought by Dublin City Council (DCC) to provide large-scale social housing schemes. The council has identified 113 "inactive" development sites in the city with planning…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (506+ words) More than 1,000 people have applied to buy just 99 "affordable" apartments and houses costing up to "473,000 at the former O'Devaney Gardens flat complex site near the Phoenix Park. The prospective homebuyers will learn this month if they have secured one of…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (462+ words) A developer has put a "1 million price tag on a three-bedroom apartment it is proposing to sell to Dublin City Council for social housing. Ardstone subsidiary, Sandford Living Ltd is making a renewed bid to secure planning permission for a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (388+ words) Rents at Dublin City University (DCU) are calculated and charged "to the letter of the RPZ law, the university's president told the Government following an Irish Times report on an increase to accommodation service fees. While the total mandatory monthly…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (357+ words) The number of renters seeking advice from homeless charity Threshold on eviction notices spiked in September this year, new data shows. The September spike came months after an announcement on new rental controls. Some 594 queries relating to Notices of Termination…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1127+ words) For Niamh N" Mhaoileoin (50), a wheelchair user for 14 years, being disabled is the reason she had to move back in with her elderly parents. And it's the reason she cannot move out. The Co Kerry woman is a single mother…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (895+ words) Honestly, I consider myself one of the lucky ones because my flatmates are really good, everyone's clean," says Dublin City University student Piyush Rajendra Jain. He pays "650 per month in rent, and his apartment, which he shares with two others…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (857+ words) A little girl living in emergency accommodation in Dublin with her mother and two sisters wrote to Santa asking for a house this Christmas. "No child should ever have to wish for a house off Santy. That just shows how…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (387+ words) Pups are not just for Christmas, they're for life," said Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam. At the Mansion House in Dublin on Monday morning, a meeting was organised by Dog Advocacy Ireland to highlight Ireland's shameful standing as puppy…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (497+ words) More than 110,000 people have benefited from the Help to Buy scheme for property purchases since its inception in 2016. That equates to about 61,000 successful claims worth a total of "1.38 billion in tax relief. The largest number of approvals was in Dublin…...