Spain has a constitutional right to housing – but it hasn’t stopped rents and property prices from skyrocketing.

The €35m Crokers Hill scheme on Kennyswell Road provides 88 homes alongside a community centre, group home and infrastructure designed to create a sustainable new neighbourhood

The Week in Housing: 02/10/26

Canary Islands President Fernando Clavijo is asking Ireland to support measures that could limit foreign purchases of second homes in the Canary Islands.

Micheál Martin has made it clear to his party that he wants to see a removal of stamp duty for first-time buyers, even though it has been ruled out by Simon Harris

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

Decision to harness private capital for housing market was reasonable, but problems were obvious

New home supply outside Dublin is up but there is also a definite cooling on the demand side of the equation

Group calls for the provision of multi-annual, ring-fenced funding towards carers of adults with intellectual disabilities in Budget 2027

Estate agent group REA’s latest index indicates sale prices rose by just 0.1% in third quarter

Targeted tax incentives are needed to bring large derelict buildings back to life and turn them into housing, the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) has said.

An enormous 18,500 homes are proposed for Dunsink – and developers are unsure about the focus on high-rise apartments in the plans.

The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built if the resources in the data centre build-out were directed elsewhere.

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Apartment living was historically seen as ‘unnatural’ in Ireland. But attitudes won’t change until standards do

Irish consumers pay disproportionately more for electricity than large data centres, report suggests

Almost 140 years of history at Ireland’s first social housing development will be explored in a new exhibition at the […]

Experts discuss how housing and planning evidence is produced, shared & used, & the limits to our knowledge & its implications.

The Government is expected to remove the need for environmental assessments for housing developments of up to 250 units by the end of the month in a bid to speed up house building.

A firm linked to Axa’s investment arm reported €24 million of earnings from its rental investments in Ireland last year

James Browne pushing for massive increase to bridge affordability gap

Retrofitting targets set by Government unlikely to be met, suggests latest report

The push is for more supply, any supply - but at what cost?

Average duration from planning to completion is now four years, twice as long as a decade ago, Central Bank says

Phenomenon of setting out to financially help people only to leave them worse off is so commonplace in Irish economic policy that I have given it a name: the failure premium

Some construction works have begun on the €220m project, which is due for completion in three years

With thousands of new homes and apartments being built across Ireland, limited parking in some developments has become an ongoing issue and frustration for residents. Our reporter, Florence Okojie has...

Former Irish Times environment editor was in many ways the living embodiment of the capital

Three Castles Burning is a social history podcast, dedicated to the story of the Irish capital. Dublin is a city of many stories, Three Castles Burning tells some of the more forgotten ones.

His reporting was relentless and led to the publication in January 1985 of his ground-breaking book The Destruction of Dublin

Those who flock to Newgrange on 21 December owe much to the excavation work of archaeologist Michael J O'Kelly in the 1960s