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    1. Alcinous21 on

      Me? I bought a house at these stupid prices. Sorry everyone

      But dont worry all my financial decisions have been incorrect so this should be no different. Expect prices to fall soon

    2. TitsMaggie69 on

      Immigration

      Edit:Yes continue to bury your head in the sand with the rest of rIreland while the far right rises all over Europe.

    3. Consistent-Daikon876 on

      The main issue is the complete aversion to building upwards. Stop expanding Dublin outwards. Embrace apartment living like every other city.

    4. Bill_Badbody on

      That’s me lads.

      And I want to apologise to absolutely nobody!

    5. mcsleepyburger on

      Poor planning, massive population growth, high material costs and shortage of skilled, willing construction workers.

    6. Gaeilgeoir78 on

      Huge taxes on ETFs so housing is the only way to invest in Ireland.

    7. brianmmf on

      The country didn’t build for a decade and made multinational immigration fueled economic growth its core strategy. Population up 25% with very few homes built and here you are. Throw in a little rent control, which increases prices in every market around the world. And some historically all time low interest rates spanning 13 years or so for good measure. And now some inflation, and always some ridiculous planning hurdles adding finance holding costs to the mix. The reasons are endless. The country has done every single thing wrong, in a set of circumstances perfectly primed to increase prices even without self inflicted wounds.

      Thank god for the income limits on borrowing: it’s great there won’t be a crash because no one is over extended. But unfortunately only the rich can afford a home so it’s them who are protected.

    8. TarzanCar on

      Normal people competing against housing bodies, investment companies and multinational companies too amongst everything else already mentioned

    9. Fluffy-Republic8610 on

      Immigration is not helping. Planning laws and ease of objection. Quantitative easing created a lot of money that had to go somewhere. There’s a feeling that property can’t fall.

    10. Difficult_Smile_2267 on

      The main overinflated sector is the 1st home sector.

      Supply and demand is an issue, however the governments actions to try resolve this by giving more money to first time buyers has just pushed prices up even more for new 3 bed homes, there is other issues of course but this section of the market is hugely overinflated right now

      Once this aid stops, the ass will fall out of this section of the market and people will probably be stuck in negative equity for a good few years

    11. Jean_Rasczak on

      Do we need to ask this question every few days and have a new article on it

      Supply and demand, it’s been like that for years. Too many years now

    12. tsubatai on

      It’s supply and demand but not specifically it’s government manufactured via:

      Supply squeeze policies combined with demand stimulation policies.

    13. carlmango11 on

      Aren’t we putting huge amounts of cash in first time buyers pockets? Isn’t this exactly what you’d expect to happen?

    14. Big_Height_4112 on

      High paying Technology staff – let’s just call it. High paying developer jobs. No one talks about it. Facts city

    15. ragepuppy on

      Higher density housing in urban areas is tricky because of the NIMBY factor. Also, to increase density, you need the transport infrastructure in place to facilitate the movement of those people and the goods and services they’ll be using.

      If that transport infrastructure isn’t in place, building it is a big project which, again, NIMBY factor.

    16. Alarmed_Station6185 on

      People bidding on multiple houses, even when they are only keeping options open rather than being truly interested. It’s partly the fault of our bidding system (in a lot of countries the price advertised is what you actually pay for the house – go figure), but people who do this are also asshats

    17. Remarkable-Ad-4973 on

      People buying houses can afford those rates. There aren’t enough houses being build for all the potential buyers.

      In other words, supply and demand

    18. bucklemcswashy on

      Supply and demand is biggest factor another is a lot of houses that were previously on the rental market are now on air BNB and other sites for short term rather than 2 year rental leases.

    19. its_brew on

      Ryanair just bought em all and will be charging by the room. Attics come with extra leg room

    20. faffingunderthetree on

      I see people blame NIMBYs and selfish fuckers as a big reason, and I’m sure it is.
      But this countries/governments ineptitude to do any infrastructure or proper planning is the main one.

      For arguments sake let’s pretend nimbys vanished overnight and our planning system sped up and got efficient, a fuck load of new gaffs and apartment blocks would fly up (well not fly as we also have a construction worker shortage, let’s not forget that) but anyways they get built.

      The issue is the roads wont be improved the infrastructure and public transport for the new houses and flats wont change or be improved, and all that stuff that goes along with housing a populace.

      It would be an utter nightmare.

    21. accursedcelt on

      Neoliberalism and a largely uncaring government really.

    22. zen_zero on

      Crooked politicians and vulture funds in cahoots. Cahoots I say!

    23. Better-Cancel8658 on

      Lack of decent bedsits. Thousands were removed in 2008 by the greens. No funding put in place to upgrade them, so they ended up empty. Cut the bottom rung off the property ladder.

    24. ConfidentArm1315 on

      Lack of supply.  If you are going to pay crazy rent  you might as  well get a mortgage if you can   no sign of rents  falling  anywhere 
       I read house prices are high in most us citys 
       No of houses for sale is small

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