Ireland: News Archive

FEBRUARY 2008

• Property developers owe over €100bn to banks - The Irish Times

JANUARY 2008

• House Prices Fell By Up to 10% In 2007 - Biz Plus Ireland

DECEMBER 2007

• What's ahead in 2008 house market (Editorial) - Irish Independent
• Rates remain a subject of great interest - Irish Independent

NOVEMBER 2007

• Property price crash is now in full swing - Independent.ie

OCTOBER 2007

• Ireland top of house price risk list - Sunday Business Post
• Foreign property dreams crash - Independent.ie
• Homeowners overpay by ?450m - Independent.ie

SEPTEMBER 2007

• Hot investment in cool market - Independent.ie
• Ireland’s market loses some steam - IHT

AUGUST 2007

• Latest interest rate hike doesn’t add up - Independent.ie
• Sanity returns to the housing market - Emigrant online
• National house prices in Ireland declined by 2.6% - Finfacts Ireland
• Turmoil in financial markets could halt rate rises - The Irish Time
• Ireland’s inflation rate rises to 5.0 percent on higher mortgage, energy costs - IHT
• 200 homes to be built in seaside village - The Irish Times

JULY 2007

• House-price fall hitting homes worth over ?1m - Independent.ie
• Northern Ireland house prices stabilising - The Irish Times
• Customers of sub-prime lender facing 10% mortgage rates - The Post.ie

JUNE 2007

• House prices fall further with 0.8% drop in May - The Irish Times
• Ireland sees house price slowdown - Financial Times
• World cost of living survey 2007: Moscow heads ranking of most expensive global cities; Dublin in 16 - Finfacts Ireland
• Ulster ’best buy’ mortgage gets dearer because of ’clever’ over subscription - Independent.ie
• Surging rental market to increase investor confidence - daft.ie
• First time Ire - Indendent.ie
• A war strange as fiction - The Economist

MAY 2007

• Irish house prices to April 2007 - Finfacts Ireland
• Global residential markets remain strong despite US housing downturn - Finfacts Ireland
• Dublin retains its Top 10 ranking - Finfacts Ireland
• Housing market bears the brunt as Ireland’s economy wobbles - Business online
• Boom turns Irish life upside down - BBC News
• The global real estate market is forecast to reach a value of about $450 billion by 2008 - Business Wire
• London most expensive global city for prime residential propery; Dublin in 17th place - Finfacts Ireland
• Donegal property is still booming- survey finds - The Donegal News
• Is Ireland heading for recession? - Money Week

APRIL 2007

• Average house price falls for first time in five years - The Irish Times
• Irish House Market: Treading the house market between blind faith and calamity howling - Finfacts Ireland
• A ’peace dividend’ for sellers in Ulster - IHT

MARCH 2007

• Sub-prime borrowers hit hard by rate rises - The Post.ie
• House prices have risen by only 2.6% in the last six months in Ireland - Firstrung.com
• House price growth ’almost static’ - The Irish Times

FEBRUARY 2007

• House buyers face interest rate hikes - Irish Examiner
• Mortgage effect hits the roof to put pressure on our inflation rate - Irish Independent
• Home-buyers who don’t shop around could lose up to Euro15,000 in mortgage payment - The Tuam Herald
• Irish mortgage rates lower than EU average - Sunday Business Post
• Irish house prices rose by 11.8% during 2006; Growth halved in Q2 2006 - Finfacts Ireland
• House price expectation falling-Draft - Ireland Online

JANUARY 2007

• Northern Ireland house price rise unabated - 4NI.co.uk
• Slowdown in housing market - Irish Post
• 80% of net pay needed to buy a house - Belfast Telegraph

DECEMBER 2006

• Albania, a land of beauty and bargains - IHT
• Homeowners hit by interest rate increase - The Irish Times (su
• CRISPY (Cash Rich Irish Seeking Property) takesover - TMC.net
• Ireland snapping at Japan’s heels in terms of wealth - Financial Times

NOVEMBER 2006

• Irish mortgage market growth slowed in Q3 2006 - Finfacts
• Comment: Irish Property Boom - It’s easy to underestimate how much economic prosperity depends - Finfacts
• Irish housing crash forecast defied again - The Move Channel

OCTOBER 2006

• Bust unlikely to follow global housing boom - Reuters
• AIB Irish Housing Report: "They think it’s all over? but it’s not" - Finfacts Ireland
• Global Survey: Cost of typical management level house in Dublin, Ireland could buy 9 similar houses - Finfacts Ireland
• Why student buy-to-let often equals debt - Firstrung

SEPTEMBER 2006

• Housing Bubbles & Bubble Markets-The Case of Ireland (pdf) - Jim Power
• Dublin’s prices among world’s most costly - IHT
• Plenty of green in Irish real estate these days - Seattle Times

AUGUST 2006

• Knight Frank Global House Price Index - Finfacts Ireland
• Annual Irish consumer price inflation rose to 4.2% in July - Finfacts
• UBS prices and earnings report 2006: Dublin is 8th most expensive city but 3rd highest for net earni - Finfacts

JULY 2006

• Average house price near ?400,000’ - RTE Business
• Government ’letting developers dictate housing market’ - Irish Examiner
• Irish house prices forecast to slow from end of 2006 as affordability deteriorates in wake of higher - Finfacts Ireland
• Construction and housing in Ireland report: CSO says construction output up 80% in 5 years - Finfacts
• ESRI: Irish economy looking rosy until ’08 - Finfacts
• House price growth in the South accelerates, while the North slows - Easier
• House price growth in the South accelerates, while the North slows - eProperty News

JUNE 2006

• Irish house prices up 270% since 1996 rising at average of 14.9% for each of the last 10 years; Cons - Finfacts Ireland

MAY 2006

• Warsaw beats Florida in ranking of top-ten overseas residential hotspots - Finfacts Ireland
• Report highlights housing supply shortfall in Dublin; Current planning policies impeding supply - Finfacts Ireland

MARCH 2006

• Dublin house prices heading for 100 times rent earned: Davy Stockbrokers - Finfacts Ireland
• State of Chassis: Artificial restriction on land supply puts ireland and UK at bottom of property le - Finfacts Ireland
• Economic survey of Ireland 2006: The housing boom - OECD

JANUARY 2006

• Irish housing market outlook ’06 (pdf) - IIBBank
• Ireland’s economy expected to continue to outpace Euroland average growth in 2006 and 2007 say - PwC

NOVEMBER 2005

• The Irish housing market - Finfacts
• Strong immigration and income growth to sustain demand and support prices (pdf) - NCB

JUNE 2005

• Global House Price Boom: The greatest BUBBLE in history - Finfacts Ireland

APRIL 2005

• Housing market loses the ’welcome’ mat - IHT