Tipo di alloggi, in percentuale della popolazione.
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Tipo di alloggi, in percentuale della popolazione.
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Bit useless when not measured against total population and available land area
Everyone in Ireland wants to start with a house and not an apartment.
There’s not actually a housing crisis…
There is a housing type of crisis.
Ha Denmark!!
Now apartments are selling for what house prices were 10 years ago. Either way, unless supply goes up everyone will remain fucked.
Britain and Ireland traditionally were the least likely to live in apartments, with the Dutch and Belgians following. (Largely to do with the British inventing trains, but that’s a tangent.)
It’s only one aspect of many affecting housing, but it’s a clear issue and one Irish people don’t like to confront.
As someone who decided to buy a small house rather than a similar sized apartment, there’s a problem with quality in the supply in apartments at the bottom end of the market. The reality is that you’re not going to get anything decent buying an apartment in this country unless you’ve got the budget… And then why would you be passing up on the extra space you could get from owning a house? Not to mention the problem of management fees.
I’ve lived in a few different apartments over the years, renting. And I can say wholeheartedly when it came to buying our home, I ruled an apartment out right away. Too many closer than close neighbours. Above you, below you, on both sides and across the hall. It just takes one of them to be loud pieces of shit and your life is a misery. At least renting you can fuck off. When you buy, you’re locked in. Would rather go further out the country than buy an apartment.
By international standards we have no true cities.
Travelling around Europe this year, I noticed a difference in the buildings compared to Ireland.
How come Ireland missed out on those large apartment buildings built before WW1? You go to Germany, Poland, France, even Lithuania or Russia, and these buildings are in every city and suburb.
They are even in Australia. You know the ones I mean that are large and square. Stairs only inside and usually 1 huge apartment per floor.
Ireland seems to have either been large houses built during the same period or tiny little houses. You missed the apartment boom in the early 1900’s.
Even the war museum in Gdansk, which shows how people lived before WW2 and during, is one of these massive apartments.
Because we don’t do apartments properly here. I have stayed in apartments on the continent and they feel like places you could call home and you can’t hear Jimmy when he sneezes 2 floors above you…
Look at all those poor Europeans.
I’ve a 120-foot back garden/ 50-foot front garden and live with just my cat in a five bedroom house worth €1.1 million here in Clontarf. ( l paid only €345,000 for it in 2013!) I absolutely do not want to see masses of apartments that lower the tone of an area or potentially devalue my outstanding property. If you want to keep building apartments, then you will end up like Hong Kong. Simply look up a photo of “Hong Kong ,Kowloon Walled City” to see what you will end up in. No more apartments,they are uncouth and like an Auschwitz for families. A family deserves a garden,a big garden. Little Fiacra needs a place to play and develop,to dream, and to grow,not a prison cell. A garden is an absolute must for a family, or the children will become Ne’er-do-wells. Anyway,we built apartments for people,it was called BALLYMUN. End of argument. I won.
Missed UK
Irish people don’t want to live in apartments because in Ireland, apartments are all tiny and shit. I live in France, and the apartments here are as big as houses back home. Multi-level and everything.
When Irish property types try to blame Irish people for wanting to live in a house, they’re not imagining giving you a proper European-style home; they’re imagining convincing you to live in tiny, shitty apartment like you had when you were a student.
Remember also that housing is one of the best investments you can make in Ireland. If you have a house you can renovate, expand and increase value significantly. With an apartment you don’t own the land, just the property.
To get a derelict house and own it in Ireland is a long process.
Many elder people sell their homes and move abroad too.
The percentage of homes available vs the the percentage of people occupying are completely different.