Tag: property
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House vacancies by census area
Rob Kitchen looks at some of the startling figures on vacant houses here with some sobering outcomes
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Where do people see new house prices going? down….
So, a totally unscientific poll over the last few days (promoted by my post on property) has confirmed what I and I suspected many others felt : people do not see any improvement in house prices. For what its worth, and no this is not scientific (well, by Sunday Independent standards maybe, it has nearly…
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Where is the housing market going in 2012?
This is an extended version of a column published in the Irish Examiner on 7 January 2012. http://www.examiner.ie/business/uncertainty-over-end-of-fall-in-house-prices-179355.html In the last week a number of publications have emerged which indicate that far from the house price crash reaching the bottom it appears, at least if you believe Daft.ie, to be accelerating. Daft.ie suggest that the…
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NAMA needs a purgative
Over the bubble the irish economic system came to resemble a snake, swallowing ever larger , more indigestible loan financed assets. NAMA was set up to clearthe property loans from the irish banking system. The originator of the scheme, Peter bacon, had felt that the best solution to the colossal property and related loans of…
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competition and the banking boom – Terms and conditions apply
One of the by now accepted memes of the irish boom and bust is that left to their own devices the banks (well, AIB and BOI anyhow) would have toddled along as the staid institutions we all knew and loved, but that the dastardly forces of competition (with the finger pointing usually to either Anglo…