Des O'Sullivan rounds up the latest news from the antique world.

The Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (Ipav) cited figures from the Residential Tenancies Board that showed there are over 1,700 fewer landlords in Ireland in 2018 than three years earlier.

Research shows that rent pressure zones are having a “moderating effect” on rent inflation but most landlords feel the restrictions are unfair.

There is a warning we are in danger of creating a welfare state if young people cannot buy homes.

House prices rose by 12.4% in May and by almost 11% over the last year but the rate of growth is slowing, new data show.

Eircodes may need to be issued to all potential new dwellings from the moment a planning application is submitted for them even if they are not subsequently built.

A new Government-backed mortgage scheme will not solve the severe shortage of homes and could further push prices up, it has been claimed

Property prices are set to rise to boom-time levels by the end of 2017, according to the head of the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers.

The confirmation from Pepper, an Australian mortgage lender based in Shannon, Co Clare, that it will sell home loans directly, has been welcomed by a leading expert as it boosts hopes that new entrants will shake up the market.

Vulture funds have swooped in on over a quarter of the country’s most distressed mortgages as concern over their operation continues to grow.

Vulture funds now own the loans of more than a quarter of the country’s most indebted mortgage holders, in long-term arrears of more than two years.

With rents rising, we asks experts what they think needs happen to ease the housing crisis.

Property prices continued to rise last month, with the strongest growth taking place outside Dublin.

The numbers of auctioneers using drones in a bid to sell property is spiralling.

Auctioneers have reiterated their call on Finance Minister Michael Noonan to rethink the sale of Nama assets, saying it is time to scrap the sale of the €7.2bn Project Arrow loans, the largest auction by the agency to date.

New regulations on mortgage lending have been announced by the Central Bank, providing some relief for first-time buyers.

Irish auctioneers are calling for a dedicated property council to be set up to oversee the future of the property industry.

Gardaí had to use pepper spray and handcuffs to restrain a Cork auctioneer who turned violent at a Limerick auction after he failed to secure a number of items he had bid for.

Homeowners are being warned that collection of the new Local Property Tax will be strictly enforced and that any unpaid taxes, plus late payment interest, will have to cleared before their property can be legally sold or transferred.

TENANTS and landlords are being warned about an upsurge in rogue letting agents who could leave them suffering considerable financial losses.

PROBLEMS could be looming for farmers and landowners in line for compulsory purchase orders.

House prices in Ireland have fallen by 34% in the last three years, according to the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers.

A MAJOR auctioneering body has expressed concerns about the possible exclusion of Irish property valuers from the State’s new toxic debt agency.

CLEAR evidence the housing crisis is hitting hard has started to emerge in various parts of the country.

One of the busiest estate agents in the north-west has shut a sales office and laid off staff as the housing market slump bites hard.

THE consumer watchdog yesterday gave estate agents 48 hours to agree to publish only accurate prices for homes they have sold or face prosecution.

Some of the media have been publishing lists of inflated prices at which property has supposedly been sold by private treaty after certain agents provided exaggerated prices of property in order to inflate the price at which they might sell other property.

Regulation in the property market is urgently needed to stop “cowboys” ripping off home buyers, it was claimed today.

Rents have increased by nearly 12% over the last year according to a study carried out by one of Irelands busiest property websites Daft.ie.

WHAT happened yesterday at Pfizer in Cork, where hundreds of jobs were put at risk, is a stark reminder that not everything is rosy in the Irish economy.

The Government must introduce legislation to regulate auctioneers and estate agents operating in the property market, the Dáil heard tonight.

THE abolition of stamp duty for first-time buyers was called for in the pre-Budget submission of the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (IPAV).

The Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (IPAV) has today urged Minister for Finance Brian Cowen to change his mind about reforming the stamp-duty regime.

ONE of the country’s leading auctioneers dismissed a widow from his firm after she admitted to having a vaginal infection, due to non-consensual sex he had with her, an employment appeals’ tribunal heard yesterday.

THE Government has agreed to clamp down on rogue auctioneering practices through a new industry watchdog with extensive powers of investigation and sanction.

ESTATE agents will have to prove they are competent at their job before being allowed to practice.

THE cost of renting an apartment in Dublin is nearly 40% more expensive than in Cork City, a new survey has shown.