Posted in Irish Times, Irish journalism, Irish Economy, Irish housing, Media, Property, Politics on Dec 14th, 2007 7 Comments »
Last week I posted a survey of the first one hundred properties listed on Daft.ie for rent in Dublin, as taken from the Daft site on 30 November 2007. Below is a survey of the next one hundred properties taken on the same day. It shows that in two weeks:
17 properties out of 100 have […]
Posted in idiotic, Irish housing, Property on Dec 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Well, how else would you explain this poll?
Posted in Irish Society, Irish Times, Irish housing, Property, Media, Politics on Dec 8th, 2007 No Comments »
This is from today’s Irish Times (sub required). It was written by Noel Whelan, and the quote at least echoes what we’ve been saying here on Dublin Opinion. Of course, the article is an opinion piece, and as such is not to be regarded in any way as fact. (The very idea!) This is the […]
Posted in dublin, Irish Society, Irish housing, Property, Ireland, Politics on Nov 27th, 2007 5 Comments »
On the day when Daft.ie released its rental report, a staggering €3,000 was knocked off the monthly rental price of a house in Glenageary. The property, on Adelaide Road, was listed last week (20 November) with an asking price of €15,000 a month.
Today, 27 November 2007, at approximately 11.33am, the property was re-listed with […]
Posted in Irish Society, Economy, Irish housing, Property, Ireland, Politics on Nov 24th, 2007 10 Comments »
Thanks to sonofstan for this one. On 21 May 2006, the Sunday Tribune printed an article entitled, ‘25 Things You Should Know About The Property Market.‘ It lists, among other things, a number of predictions by our friends Hooke and McDonald, as well as daft.ie, about Irish property. This is what they had […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish housing, Property, Ireland, Politics on Nov 24th, 2007 4 Comments »
The Irish residential property market has now reached a turning point and already there are encouraging signs of a pick-up in activity, with sales enquiries through Hooke & MacDonald increasing steadily. This momentum will follow through into the autumn selling period, boosted by the resolution of the stamp duty issue and as the interest rate […]
Posted in UK Politics, Irish History, Property, politics/Ireland on Nov 15th, 2007 4 Comments »
Today’s Guardian contains a piece by Stuart Jeffries. In it he ponders the outcome of a successful push for Scottish independence. He writes that, post-independence, the most northerly point in Britain will no longer be in Scotland, of course, but, amazingly, in the Republic! Post-independence, the most northerly point of Britain will be Inishrahull island […]
Posted in Irish Society, Property, Media on Oct 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
In my post on The Irish Times Gives Award to Itself Dav of mediabite.org, kindly left a link to a very interesting and wide-ranging interview that mediabite had with Fintan O’Toole this year. In relation to the post on the Property Developers series in the Irish Times its very informative on the symbiotic relationship between […]
Posted in immigration, Property, Ireland on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Immigrant. immigrants, everywhere. Well they were on telly last night, at least. TV usually holds few surprises and even fewer delights, but last night saw a stack of decent programs clashing annoyingly. The last installment of Prosperity, maligned and defended here, featured the ups and downs, mainly downs it seems, of a Nigerian immigrant in […]
Posted in Irish Society, dublin, Irish housing, Property, Ireland on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
The following table shows in percentage terms the amount of empty houses and apartments in Leinster, as recorded by the April 2006 census. I removed holiday homes and “visitor only” residences from the calculations, in order to arrive at an appreciation of just how many vacant residential properties there are in the province.