Posted in Irish journalism, Irish housing on Jan 21st, 2011 1 Comment »
I broke my self-imposed ban on Irish media yesterday, mainly because of the events in the Dáil, but while I was scanning the Irish Times site I came across this article entitled: What’s a house worth now: does anyone know?
The blurb at the start said this:
With no national house price register available to help homeowners, […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish housing on Nov 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Rialto Rights In Action - Telling It How It Is from DCTV on Vimeo.
[Thanks to Donnacha O’Briain for the link and information]
This video is the culmination of months of work carried out by residents in Dolphin House in collaboration with DCTV. The partnership started with a training process where residents were given camera classes in […]
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Irish property bubble, Irish Society, Irish housing on Oct 20th, 2010 No Comments »
The average house price in Ireland at the end of March 2010 was €226,245.
This is about €23,000 lower than the average house price in 2004, and over €96,000 lower than the highest average yearly price, which was €322,634 in 2007.
We know that from 2005 to 2009 there were around 138,042 mortgages sold to […]
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Irish property bubble, Irish housing, Irish social history on Oct 18th, 2010 No Comments »
It’s a godsend for the wealthy, a real haven.”
In March 1988 Ray McSharry reintroduced section twenty-three tax relief on rental properties. It was listed under section twenty-seven of the Finance Act but retained its name from 1981, when it was first introduced as a stimulus for investment in construction.
The Irish Times reported that the […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish housing, Irish social history, Irish Working Class on Jul 14th, 2010 1 Comment »
[Photo from ‘Darkest Dublin’ collection, RSAI]
I’m using so much of Ruth McManus‘ work for my chapter on 20th century Irish housing it’s embarrassing.
Her book, Dublin 1910-1940: Shaping the City and Suburbs (Four Courts Press, 2002) is in the public library system, and is available for purchase from Four Courts here.
I’m also drawing heavily […]
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish housing, Irish social history on Jun 24th, 2010 11 Comments »
I gave up on Irish journalism about 18 months ago, just after the 2008 bank guarantee scheme and the December budget of that year. And while this has done my blood pressure no end of good - it’s not the news that drives me mad, it’s the inane analysis - it also means that I […]
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish Economy, Irish housing, Irish social history on Jun 18th, 2010 9 Comments »
First of all, as always, the caveats.
This graph is based on dwellings in Irish towns of 1,500 people or more. The reason for that is because the Land Acts skewer home ownership as farms are both a home and a livelihood.
By removing farms from the picture, it’s possible to get a glimpse at house/apartment purchases […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish property bubble, Banks, Irish Economy, Irish housing, dublin, Irish social history on Jun 15th, 2010 2 Comments »
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain.
The happy highways where I went
and cannot come again.
I was brought up in the Seventies. Strong colours and oversized jumpers. These are my memories. The boundaries of my world were the Harmonstown road to the Santry river, the shops on Edenmore park, the old […]
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish Capitalism, Irish Society, Irish housing on Jun 8th, 2010 21 Comments »
There’s a comment often bandied about when it comes to housing in Ireland: ‘our parents got through it, so can we.’
Well, our parents didn’t get through this, because our parents never faced what Ireland is facing now - at least in terms of housing debt.
The sheer level of theft which has taken place - and […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish property bubble, Fianna Fáil, Irish Economy, Irish housing, Irish social history on Jun 4th, 2010 No Comments »
Figures are available here.
