Tag: investment property
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Only the tax system can save the Irish housing market…
In a country that is only 4% urbanized to have a scarcity of land for building takes quite some doing. It takes generations, generations in which the political class, and those who elect them, ignored best interests of long-term planning; The budget next week as an opportunity to begin to undo some of this, but…
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Irish Banks failure to deal with BTL mortgage arrears gives scant hope for the future.
This is a expanded version of my column with the Irish Examiner of October 12 2013. With the budget around the corner we are hearing soothing noises all round about the economy. Apparently things are grand, or about to be. We are to be grateful that in an inversion of 1 Kings 12:11 we are…