Tag: property
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Too late to stop a Dublin house price bubble?
And on it goes. The latest house price data from the CSO indicate the two Irelands continuing to diverge. On one hand we have Dublin (and to some extent the rest of the urban areas) growing like gangbusters, while on the other hand the stagnation intensifies in the rest of the state. This is clear…
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Buy to Let and other residential investments : why dont people sell?
One of the features of the Irish residential property boom and bust was the large number of people who purchased residential property for investment purposes. Figures for end 2012 suggest over 150,000 investment mortgages, accounting for some €31b. Now that the market has fallen a question that is often asked is why we do not…
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Just how obsessed with property is Ireland? Some experimental proof
So, I ran an experiment yesterday, thanks for taking part. I posted two blogposts. One was titled “are you looking forward to 2013”, the other “where is the Irish property market going in 2013” Both were identical in every way apart from the title, being the usual expanded version of my Irish Examiner Saturday column.…
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Where is the Irish Property market going in 2013?
This is an extended and linked version of a column published in the Irish Examiner on 29 December 2012 So what will the new year bring on the economic front? 2012 can be summarized as having been a holding operation – on the domestic front the government held the line at the budget, losing some…
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Are you looking forward to 2013?
This is an extended and linked version of a column published in the Irish Examiner on 29 December 2012 So what will the new year bring on the economic front? 2012 can be summarized as having been a holding operation – on the domestic front the government held the line at the budget, losing some…
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Public Sector, Private Sector, Public Money, Private Money
I spoke yesterday at the Irish Proshares Association ( a branch of IBEC), along with Jim Power and Constantin Gurdgiev. A gloom of economists indeed.Part of the discussion after our presentation got me thinking of the nature of the “debate” in ireland, where much focuses on public sector versus private sector. The debate is posited…
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Full Property Price Details Ireland Jan 2010-Sep 2012
Ok, the site (www.propertypriceregister.ie) is awful. But you can download data (in csv). Below is a full download to save the aggravation (in xlsx format) of all property sold in Ireland since 2010 January. File is c 3mb…. PropertyPrices2010Jan-2012Sep
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Taxes, Land and Wealth
This is an expanded version of a column published in the Irish Examiner 25 August 2012. One of the defining characteristics of Irish governance is the inability to make decision based on evidence. All to often we substitute evidence-based policy, where a careful weighing of the consequences and analyses of different positions leads to a…