Housing Economists have played down property investors’ warnings of rent hikes – because tenants are already so stretched that the market won’t sustain any further rises. So now a publicly-funded research project is investigating just what is affordable. The Parliamentary letters secretary for Associate Housing Minister Poto Williams will be kept busy this month. Advocacy group

The average price for renting accommodation in Cork city rose by 4.5% over 2020, despite the devastating effects of a global pandemic and a series of Lockdowns that have effectively shut large areas of our economy. The latest nationwide survey from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) reveals that in the last four months of 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has utterly transformed the property market, with people now looking at rural areas over urban centres, and a good broadband connection tops the list of must-haves. Ann-Marie Ahern runs probably the largest independent auctioneers in the region, encompassing its major towns such as Midleton and Youghal, as well as picturesque coastal areas and

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s newly established quarantine hotels received their first guests on Monday as the government tries to prevent new coronavirus variants from derailing a fast-moving vaccination drive that has delivered more than 15 million shots in ten weeks. Passengers arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport were escorted by security guards to buses that took

A new report has found that Cork County experienced one of the highest rates of rental inflation across the entire country during the course of 2020. igures contained within the latest Daft.ie Rental Report showed that the average monthly rent in the county, as 2020 drew to a close, stood at €1,106 compared to €1,016

Renters leaving Dublin are facing supply issues and rising rents in other urban centres such as Cork and Galway, the housing charity Threshold has said. The charity was commenting on the latest quarterly rental report by Daft.ie, which found that over the past year rents in Dublin saw the largest decrease since 2010 (3.3%), but

James Cox Figures published today by the Department of Housing show the number of people who are homeless in December 2020 fell by 284 to 8,200 — compared to 8,484 in the previous month. There was also a reduction in the number of children who are homeless to 2,327 (a drop of 125). The fall

The Residential Tenancies Board was powerless to sanction landlords who made 17 families homeless, despite ‘improper conduct’, it has emerged. More than a year after the Irish Daily Mail first revealed that the RTB was concerned about its lack of powers and need for ‘structural change’, reform has yet to take place. The cases –