property crash
# property-crash - Thursday 16 May, 2013
Column: Tenants shouldn’t pay the price for landlords struggling with mortgage repayments
There’s a crisis in the buy-to-let sector due to landlords falling into mortgage arrears and innocent tenants are getting caught in the chaos. Receivers have to realise people renting properties are not commodities, writes Bod Jordan.
# property-crash - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Best place for US business folk to retire? Ireland.
Wall Street Journal sister site MarketWatch recommends Ireland as its top spot for a happy retirement.
# property-crash - Thursday 7 February, 2013
Clare hotel and Dublin Georgian house in distressed property auction
The Kilkee Bay Hotel has a maximum reserve of €315,000 while a bar in Clifden, Galway has a reserve of €450,000.
# property-crash - Saturday 15 December, 2012
Here is the week’s news…skewed
Breaking via The Mire wire: Kerry priest tells children there is no God; Government pledge to help homeowners become homeless; Craig Doyle = why?
# property-crash - Thursday 4 October, 2012
Property market could need decades to recover from bust, says Central Bank
A working paper shows Ireland’s property crash is among the most drastic in the world – and it may take years to recover.
# property-crash - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
Block of 119 apartments for sale for €26m
Development in Ranelagh, Dublin 6 being put to market with apartments, office space and car parking in one lot.
# property-crash - Thursday 6 September, 2012
Sacred Heart convent in Roscrea for sale for €100,000
Latest distressed property features former convent in Tipperary with top reserve price of €100,000.
# property-crash - Sunday 8 July, 2012
# property-crash - Friday 6 July, 2012
Entire Kerry housing estate sells for €235,000 at property auction
A castle in Kildare sold for €195,000 after attracting huge interest from buyers at the Allsop property auction.
# property-crash - Monday 2 July, 2012
The maps that explain the state of Ireland’s property market right now
Researchers at AIRO have put together the maps which show average prices and rents for more than 1,000 areas across the country over the past five years.
# property-crash - Monday 30 April, 2012
Central Bank paper suggests house prices have ‘over-corrected’
A research paper tries to examine why Irish house prices keep falling – and suggests the drop has gone too far.
# property-crash - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
Would you like a house for €15,000?
It’s in Cavan but it’s a two-bed semi-detached – just one of the ‘distressed’ properties in latest auction.
# property-crash - Monday 2 April, 2012
Poll: Is now a good time to buy a home?
Two house price reports are out today – both say house prices still falling, but one says that slide is now very slow. Tell us what you think…
# property-crash - Saturday 25 February, 2012
Eamon Ryan: Greens predicted property crash but didn’t do enough to warn people
In the final part of the series of interviews with politicians, Eamon Ryan explains how he hopes people will be willing to vote for the Green Party again by the next election
# property-crash - Friday 20 January, 2012
Reverse-bid auction “our only chance to sell our home”
Following TheJournal.ie’s story on unusual house sale in Westmeath, another Midlands couple says negative equity has forced them to look at alternative. But will it work?
# property-crash - Saturday 14 January, 2012
Column: House prices need to fall further, or our economy is in danger
Have property prices finally bottomed out? We’d better hope not, writes Michael Taft.
# property-crash - Thursday 29 December, 2011
Column: Our landlord went into receivership – now we’re in limbo
Her building crumbling and in legal limbo, Alsa Campbell writes about how tenants are finding themselves at the sharp end of landlords’ financial troubles.
# property-crash - Thursday 22 December, 2011
1 in 10 Irish mortgages are in arrears
At the same time, one-fifth of all mortgage holders are believed to be having difficulties in meeting mortgage repayments.
# property-crash - Tuesday 20 December, 2011
House prices still in freefall, down 15.6 per cent for the year
Property prices are down a massive 46 per cent from their peak, according to new figures from the CSO.
# property-crash - Thursday 15 September, 2011
Column: Renting is the future – and not just for houses
As the property crash continues to bite, people are avoiding big commitments to their homes, cars and even relationships, writes Gerard O’Neill.
# property-crash - Sunday 21 August, 2011
Poll: Do you think struggling households should get mortgage debt relief?
The campaign to have debt forgiveness introduced for those unable to meet their home loan payments is gathering voice. Do you think there should be such a scheme?
Writing off mortgage debt is an “emergency” need
Chorus of calls for Government to organise a mortgage debt relief scheme for worst-off householders builds to crescendo – and now a government junior minister is backing it…
# property-crash - Monday 4 July, 2011
Average house price now under €200k – and there’s still room to fall
Daft.ie report shows property price fall accelerated in second quarter of 2011. Asking prices nationally fell 5 per cent in three months.
# property-crash - Monday 27 June, 2011
Distressed property auction ‘likely to be success’
Organisers of July firesale of properties in Dublin says he is not put off by collapse in sales at Cork ‘discounted’ property auction last week.
# property-crash - Friday 4 March, 2011
# property-crash - Monday 21 February, 2011
Knock-down Irish property auction drawing foreign buyers
Sale of ‘distressed’ properties is set for 15 April in Dublin – and agent says the homes and commercial spaces on offer will be priced “aggressively”.












































