DUBLIN office rentals are showing a mild but encouraging take-up growth, notably in smaller, more affordable units, according to new commercial property analysis.

MORTGAGE lending has halved, with an average of just 36 approved per day in the first three months of the year.

HOUSE prices have hit bottom, according to one of the world’s leading credit rating agencies — but it will be a few years before the market picks up.

ESTATE agents Savills have pointed out that although the many merits of the Government’s changes to the penal stamp duty regime have been widely commended following the budget announcement, a thought must be spared for those potential first-time buyers who have now been brought into the net.

A REDUCTION in the oversupply in housing points to a mild property recovery in Cork and certain parts of Dublin, according to a report by estate agents Savills.

HOUSE prices are likely to fall a further 10%, according to one of the world’s leading rating agencies.

A doorman of a public house was gunned down by a pillion passenger on a motorcycle on a busy Dublin street, an inquest heard today.