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Businessman Mel Sutcliffe revealed as buyer of Paddy McKillen jnr’s former south Dublin home businesspost.ie/news/businessm…

Both of these comments from Taoiseach Simon Harris and Darragh O'Brien were made in October 2024. They claimed info being fed into them said 40,000 homes would be built in 2024. Now CSO data confirms 30,330 homes were built, down 6.7% compared to 2023 cso.ie/en/releasesand…

Legal challenges against Dublin housing projects fall by almost 50% One in eight of all uncommenced homes in Dublin, which have been granted planning permission, now face judicial review proceedings businesspost.ie/news/legal-cha…

Residential investors have bulk bought more than half a billion euro worth of property since the government put in place new rules to limit this practice. New data here from Revenue showing how many houses have been bought at the higher stamp duty rate businesspost.ie/news/revealed-…

Knight Frank: State paying premium prices for apartments that ‘investors can’t justify’ Last year, some housing charities in Ireland spent more than €600,000 per unit to buy apartments in Dublin businesspost.ie/news/knight-fr…

New housing policies being examined by Gov: - Refined boom time section 23 tax breaks for developers -State backstop/guarantee of apartment purchases -Councils to be ordered en masse to reopen county development plans -Brownfield site incentives businesspost.ie/article/reveal…

The seven private firms that made over €30m each from €1.8bn state spend on refugee accommodation businesspost.ie/news/revealed-…

This Sunday’s edition. Pick up a copy in stores or subscribe at businesspost.ie: 🗞️   Inside Micheál Martin’s private meeting with business execs in Washington DC 🗞️  Our new Life&Luxury section 🗞️  McKillen snr-led firm defaulted on mega loans

Interesting deal here showing the influence of the international protection accommodation service (IPAS) on comm prop sector. - Property goes to market in Nov 2024 at €2.5m - Sold for €3.15m in early March - Days later it's confirmed the property will be an IPAS housing centre

The collapse of 23&me got me thinking about Genomics Medicine Ireland. GMI used €66m in taxpayer funds to build up a huge Irish genome database. But it was then taken over by a company in Boston. I tried to contact that company’s CEO last week … thetimes.com/article/17abec…

I've been keeping a close eye on companies providing services to refugees in Ireland this past year. New records for Igo Cafe Limited show just how profitable the €2bn industry has become. Pay to the firm's two directors has more than trebled to €4.6m businesspost.ie/news/refugee-s…

Secretaries general don't often say much publicly, but Graham Doyle of Department of Housing has made some very interesting remarks about the housing tsar role. Top civil servant in housing department tells industry Ireland ‘doesn’t need’ a housing tsar businesspost.ie/politics/top-c…