Could uncertainty over the future of the help to buy scheme drive up house prices even more?
New leadership often brings about new ideas and the recent elevation of Leo Varadkar to Taoiseach could have a big impact on the housing market…
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Eoghan Murphy appointed new Housing Minister
Eoghan Murphy has been appointed the new Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. The 35-year-old Dublin Bay South TD was new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s…
Help to Buy scheme could be axed by Varadkar
The first-time buyer grant could be facing the axe just six months after it was introduced. Fine Gael leadership frontrunner Leo Varadkar yesterday vowed to…
Rent supplements and housing assistance payments to increase
The Government has approved an increase in rent supplement and housing assistance payments by as much as 35%. It will cost up to €55m extra…
Government considering plans to tax banks if they refuse to cut variable mortgage rates
The Government are considering plans to impose higher levies and taxes on banks if they refuse to cut variable mortgage rates, Tánaiste Joan Burton has…
ESRI expert warns about implications of housing shortage
Young people will end up living with their parents until they are 35 unless the housing supply increases, Economic and Social Research Institute research professor…
Number of homes being built in Dublin "needs to treble"
The number of family homes being built in Dublin needs to treble in order to meet pent-up demand, Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has said. Mr Varadkar said…
Waiver may apply for those unable to afford property tax
Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has said people who cannot afford the property tax to be announced on budget day next week should be allowed…
Property tax must not be an urban tax, warns Varadkar
Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has called for measures to be implemented into the property tax to avoid it penalising city dwellers. The new property tax…
IPAV insist value-based property tax would be "crazy"
A leading auctioneers group have insisted that a value-based property tax would be “crazy”. Speculation grew at the weekend that the government would charge people…
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