Time to increase housing supply

In 2012 when the topic of housing in Ireland came up for discussion, the terms ‘negative equity’ and ‘ghost estate’ were bandied about with numbing frequency.

Since then, the debate has been turned on its head — at least as far as the country’s capital city and other large urban areas including Cork and Galway are concerned. House prices in Dublin are up by over 20% in the past year.

A cause of celebration perhaps for struggling vendors, or rather for their impatient lenders. a source of headaches for families in search of suitable starter homes.