There was almost a whiff of “let them eat cake” around the suggestion from Dublin City Council chief executive Owen Keegan that “idle” council land should be sold to private developers to fund “cultural, sport, and recreational projects”.

The public auction on Tuesday, May 30 of a 110-acre farm located near Killarney should guarantee a sizeable turnout.

The maximum annual payment in the Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme in 2019 for the farmers with the poorest land will increase to €4,240, pending EU permission for a formal amendment to the Rural Development Programme which is now under way, to ensure that the Scheme can open for application early in 2019.

Auctions can be a very efficient way of purchasing property for farmland

In 2017, a total of 32,990 acres of farmland sold in Ireland, for €161.1m, according to the Central Statistics Office.

Labour's Housing Spokesperson says the state's new housing plan is just "new wine for old bottles".

The LDA promises to build 150,000 new homes over the next 20 years.

An exceptional 19-acre property in East Cork is due to take final offers on Thursday, August 30.

Located approximately 7km south-east of the town of Fethard in South Tipperary, a 119-acre stud farm is sure to get some pulses racing.

Tommy Barker discovers a large refurbished Victorian home nestling in woods outside Riverstick in Co Cork.

For sale with Richard Ryan of GVM Auctioneers in Kilmallock, this 83-acre stud farm is sure to set the hearts racing of farmers of all pursuits within the area.

That age-old adage, finders keepers, losers weepers”, often steers people astray.

The land located around Bandon in West Cork is renowned for its quality, deep soil and superb drainage.

Land in east Cork has been selling very well of late, and it’s no surprise, writes Conor Power.

Energy production can be compatible with food productionm or other land uses that are beneficial to society.

Gardaí have uncovered a €4.5m land and forestry fraud scheme.

The Government has confirmed it has reached an agreement to buy almost 5,000 acres of the Dublin mountains.

Average land prices have fallen by 1.5% to €9,650 per acre in the six months to June, according to a survey issued by Sherry Fitzgerald estate agents.

Situated just 1km north of the small hamlet of Kilbane and about equidistant (5km) from the villages of Broadford and Bridgetown, a 54-acre holding in south-east Co Clare represents very good value for a substantial parcel of ground that can be put to multiple uses.

Following the successful auction in Hayes Hotel last month of a 70-acre farm, another Thurles hotel will be receiving an auction party tomorrow at 3pm.

Take a walk down Abbey Street past the Jervis Center — itself a converted hospital — towards Heuston Station in Dublin.

Poolbeg Peninsula and the lure of its vacant lands has rarely been out of the news headlines. 

Coillte is to switch from a sale to a lease model with regard to non-core land assets in a bid to generate recurring income.

Low global commodity prices and uncertainty over the UK’s Brexit referendum have subdued farmer interest in land, according to a new report on 2015 land sales and rental activity.

Farm land-rental markets remain subdued, a fact which the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland / Teagasc land report links closely to Brexit fears.

Developers who are hoarding their land for higher profits rather than building houses should have those lands seized by the State, members of the Oireachtas Housing Committee have said.

Farmers have launched a poster campaign instructing the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Birdwatch Ireland to keep off their land.