Zukünftiges Wohnungsangebot gefährdet, nachdem Neubauten um mehr als 75 % zurückgegangen sind

It’ll get worse and you’ll love it. Hopefully oil will hit 200 for some extra fun

A few private consultancy groups and we’ll be back on track in no time

They’ll just lie about the figures before the next election again and enough people will fall for it to get them re-elected

Well….the housing czar is reigning for like three weeks, has not traveled through his domain, as is custom when taking the golden chair, these things take time…..

There was a post here yesterday taking issue with the housing minister attending a conference for ‚vulture funds‘ – well it looks like the housing market needs all the vulture funds that it can get 

The only new builds I’m aware of are being built on the far outskirts of the city. Far from jobs, public transport, shops etc.

We need a major program of demolishing low-rise housing in the city centre and building lots and lots of apartments.

And people keep electing these lazy incompetent politicians.

We need a state owned construction company with state owned suppliers of materials where possible. And more training in the construction sector.

Then, fix the planning permission fiasco where individuals can block or delay developments for petty selfish reasons.

Remove taxes on private landlords that actually accept HAP, or replace HAP with something that works.

And give landlords the right to quickly evict tenants that are not paying rent, causing significant property damage or generating complaints about antisocial behaviour. That would encourage more new landlords.

>Uğur said homes started in 2024 must be completed by the end of this year to qualify for levy waivers, so he expects overall housing output to reach nearly 39,000 homes in 2026 as long as “the strong momentum in construction continues”.

>The data also show the number of residential units granted planning permission rose by 29.4 per cent to 11,142 in the third quarter of last year, the highest number since the second quarter of 2023.

Plenty of mixed messages in this.

A lot of the positive or negative headlines about housing stats seem to be down to developers timing officlal commencements or completions to maximize whatever the state incentives are.

Commencements down in 2025 because they claimed commencent in 2024 to avoid expiry of development-levy waivers .

Completions up in 2026 because those homes started in 2024 must be completed by the end of this year to qualify for levy waivers.

Who`d have thought we`d need refugee type camps for ourselves ..

I suppose they just need a flashy name.

`Micheáls Paradise Sanctuary.`

I think this totally misunderstands what the report said. Firstly, completions last year were 36,284 up 20.4% on 2024 and the highest since about 2009. We know that starts data was disrupted in 2024 and the 69,311 starts that year were artificially boosted by the deadline for development and water levy waviers in April and September that year so the usual lagged relationship between starts and completions was not going to hold in 2025 and that some starts in 2024 would not be delivered until this year. Starts then fell to 16,412 in 2025, not surprisingly due to the surge in 2024. Combined you get a figure of 85,723 starts over the two years and taking away completions from last year you get a figure of just under 50k. Now I don’t think we have the capacity to deliver 50k houses in a single year yet with all the other non-new residential construction activity but a figure of low to mid 40k’s is more realistic. We are waiting to see if starts this year will return to a more normal pattern and starts in January were broadly in line with starts from January 2023 before any waiver impact. What the report is saying is that it’s too early to tell if things have returned to trend and that if it doesn’t there will be a fall of in 2027. That’s ‚if it doesnt‘ and we don’t have the data yet. We know there was a fall in apartment planning permissions earlier last year and concerns about the viability of some development but the changes in Budget 2026 may improve this situation, again too early to tell and waiting for data. If you look at the 4Dublin housing supply pipeline for Q3 2025 (latest data) there’s over 80k units (vast majority apartments) with planning permission in the Dublin region with just under 36k currently active and of that 12k is near completion and 24k under construction. I don’t want to downplay issues with housing supply and infrastructure etc. but this report is not at all suggestions we are going to have a fall off in supply, in fact the indicators we do have is that supply continues to pick up and it’s just calling out risks and that we are waiting for more data.

Why would Sinn Fein do this????

What the actual F**K!!!

Never mind housing supply. That’s usually a sign of an incoming recession.

We get what we deserve as an electorate. FG should have been turfed out in 2019.