Ah so it’s all going according to plan then so, big W for the govt
1993blah on
Based on the graph the increases are slowing up in the last few months
JONFER--- on
The problem of rising prices can only ultimately be dealt which by building more houses. But that takes years, legal challenges, mental regulations and financing issues frustrate this. Another way of dealing with this would be to massively reduce the demand of houses by deporting failed asylum seekers tightening up border controls et cetera. But it’s clear that the government will not do this.
One way to slightly improve things in the future is to prohibit people or entities from outside the state buying and thus inflating the price of properties within the state.
Franz_Werfel on
Just remember: it’s _supply shortages_ that are to blame, not the decades long inactivity of our government to invest in construction – or to do anything meaningful about the housing crisis in general.
To be clear: there are too few houses, so supply outstripping demand is technically correct. The maddening bit is that everyone agree this is a crisis. However, successive governments have failed to treat is as the monumental challenge that this is.
miseconor on
They’ll go up even more with the new RPZ rules
WearingMarcus on
Is housing inflation in the CPI Inflation?
Wise_Adhesiveness746 on
I hope every fucker behind this mess loses their pensions in the next crash
CreditorsAndDebtors on
Wow, it turns out an extremely liberal immigration policy of allowing hundreds of thousands of immigrants to enter the country in recent years has resulted in demand vastly outstripping supply. Who could have ever forecasted this?
MrStarGazer09 on
Well, what do you expect when you continue with enormous levels of reckless immigration on top of what was already a deficit of over 250k homes below what we needed before the huge surge after COVID.
We already know from last year that the population is growing at 4 times the rate that new homes are being built. Like big f-ing surprise that prices of a finite resource increase when you massively increase demand 🙄
And that ratio is likely to be even less favourable this year as multiple reports suggest decreased foreign investment in house building due to the global economic and geopolitical climate. Soon people will have to continue living in their childhood homes until well into their 40s at this rate.
The housing crisis cannot ever be solved without controlling immigration in a sensible way – pausing it to catch up to demand and then, going forward, balancing it with housing and infrastructure resources. The government have made an absolute mess of this. People need to wake up and demand better and demand a sensible immigration policy.
So we’re being played _again_ by the same folks responsible for this – which also happens to be the same folks who were inexplicably reelected. At this stage we can only blame ourselves for this
Traditional-Set-1186 on
People blaming immigration despite the fact if you stopped it overnight the only reason prices might go down is because of a real GNI recession.
Spursious_Caeser on
There’s an A2 new build in my town that’s been up for sale at €490K the last few years. Lovely looking house and all, but it is too expensive for what it is.
Walked past the local auctioneers with the dog the other day and noticed that it had gone up to €525K since…. couldn’t shift it at €490K for a few years, it sits unoccupied, and then some genius decides to tack another €35K on it for…. reasons.
Makes zero sense.
TheFreemanLIVES on
Remember government supporters on here telling us they would meet their housing completion targets by the end of the year…last year? Around the election.
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Ah so it’s all going according to plan then so, big W for the govt
Based on the graph the increases are slowing up in the last few months
The problem of rising prices can only ultimately be dealt which by building more houses. But that takes years, legal challenges, mental regulations and financing issues frustrate this. Another way of dealing with this would be to massively reduce the demand of houses by deporting failed asylum seekers tightening up border controls et cetera. But it’s clear that the government will not do this.
One way to slightly improve things in the future is to prohibit people or entities from outside the state buying and thus inflating the price of properties within the state.
Just remember: it’s _supply shortages_ that are to blame, not the decades long inactivity of our government to invest in construction – or to do anything meaningful about the housing crisis in general.
To be clear: there are too few houses, so supply outstripping demand is technically correct. The maddening bit is that everyone agree this is a crisis. However, successive governments have failed to treat is as the monumental challenge that this is.
They’ll go up even more with the new RPZ rules
Is housing inflation in the CPI Inflation?
I hope every fucker behind this mess loses their pensions in the next crash
Wow, it turns out an extremely liberal immigration policy of allowing hundreds of thousands of immigrants to enter the country in recent years has resulted in demand vastly outstripping supply. Who could have ever forecasted this?
Well, what do you expect when you continue with enormous levels of reckless immigration on top of what was already a deficit of over 250k homes below what we needed before the huge surge after COVID.
We already know from last year that the population is growing at 4 times the rate that new homes are being built. Like big f-ing surprise that prices of a finite resource increase when you massively increase demand 🙄
And that ratio is likely to be even less favourable this year as multiple reports suggest decreased foreign investment in house building due to the global economic and geopolitical climate. Soon people will have to continue living in their childhood homes until well into their 40s at this rate.
The housing crisis cannot ever be solved without controlling immigration in a sensible way – pausing it to catch up to demand and then, going forward, balancing it with housing and infrastructure resources. The government have made an absolute mess of this. People need to wake up and demand better and demand a sensible immigration policy.
https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/revealed-population-growing-at-four-times-the-rate-new-homes-are-being-built/a1593048308.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/05/19/new-home-starts-are-at-lowest-level-since-2016/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/537502/immigrant-population-of-ireland/#:~:text=There%20were%20approximately%20149%2C200%20immigrants,peaked%20at%20151%2C100%20in%202007.
So we’re being played _again_ by the same folks responsible for this – which also happens to be the same folks who were inexplicably reelected. At this stage we can only blame ourselves for this
People blaming immigration despite the fact if you stopped it overnight the only reason prices might go down is because of a real GNI recession.
There’s an A2 new build in my town that’s been up for sale at €490K the last few years. Lovely looking house and all, but it is too expensive for what it is.
Walked past the local auctioneers with the dog the other day and noticed that it had gone up to €525K since…. couldn’t shift it at €490K for a few years, it sits unoccupied, and then some genius decides to tack another €35K on it for…. reasons.
Makes zero sense.
Remember government supporters on here telling us they would meet their housing completion targets by the end of the year…last year? Around the election.
I remember.