A selection of the latest starter homes in Cork city.

Ireland’s largest publicly listed housebuilder Cairn Homes has announced plans to buy back shares and issue a dividend for the first time, saying Brexit was having no impact on the market for homes for first-time buyers.

The tracker mortgage scandal has shattered lives and inflicted “huge human suffering and cost”, according to the Minister for Finance.

Four years after the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, the focus of its investigation has clearly moved away from Tuam and onto other headline-generating institutions like Bessborough and Sean Ross Abbey, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

A new record of 10,264 homeless people is triggering calls for the upcoming local elections to be treated by voters as a referendum on the Government’s “failed” housing policies.

While dated, No 1 Tramore Lawn is much more than your standard suburban semi-d, finds Tommy Barker.

We scan a selection of trading up homes in city and county.

We scan a selection of trading up homes in city and country...

Revenue says 97% of people paid it in 2018.

Tommy Barker says the familiar addresses, predictable locations pulled the big money out of the bag in 2018. Here are the tops...

One-third of housing charity Threshold's Munster clients are facing a tenancy termination and almost a quarter are having their rent reviewed or increased.

We scan a selection of trading up homes in city and country...

Tommy Barker is impressed with the progress on a group of new high-spec homes just outside Clonakilty.

Richview House in Kilkenny has all the Georgian grandeur you would expect from a property which was built as the residence of the 17th Earl of Ormond.

A family home in a sought-after Cork suburb that’s moved with the times has something for everyone, writes Tommy Barker.

After a ‘down-time’ hiatus Kinsale Convent Garden scheme is finally delivering on heavenly views, says Tommy Barker.

This 15-year-old house was built to emulate grand homes of the Victorian era and is suitably elegant and proportioned, writes Tommy Barker.

We scan a selection of trading up homes in city and county.

Kya deLongchamps goes in search of expert advice on training animals — even cats — and deals with the impact on the household and with neighbours.

This week's trading up homes from around the country...

We scan a selection of trading up homes in city and county...

We scan a selection of trading up homes in city and county.

One in five Irish homeowners buy or rescue a dog to make their homes more secure.

Don’t build a bungalow, renovate an old building instead, is the theme of a new programme on RTE, writes Carol O’Callaghan Don’t build — renovate an old building instead — that’s the theme of a new programme on RTÉ, fronted by Home of the Year’s Hugh Wallace, and pulling in the viewers on Sunday nights.

Amid reports of house hunters queuing for the release of new homes in Dublin 15, IPAV, the Institute of Professional Auctioneers & Valuers, said no one should have to queue in such a manner in the open air and overnight.

Permission for a 608-house development in Cork has been approved by An Bord Pleanála, under new strategic housing development (SHD) guidelines designed to fast-track new homes and student apartments to tackle the housing crisis.

Labour has warned that new government-backed low-cost mortgages could push up house prices and said the price of new homes should instead be as a low as €130,000 for buyers.

Cork is well placed to greatly increase the number of new homes it can deliver, writes Paul Hannon.

Looking back at 2017, Michael H Daniels says our nearest neighbour’s trauma is cooling the market here, and is making the future a lot harder to predict    

Despite a demographic bulge in housing demand, and demand and supply imbalance, house sales dipped in 2017, says Tommy Barker.

Kya deLongchamps on the confusing whirl of energy upgrades in the home.

While asking prices for Dublin homes have continued to rise, the asking price around the country decreased nationally in Q3, according to the latest house price report from MyHome.ie

Ireland will need an extra 600,000 jobs and 500,000 more homes over the next two decades.