British agencies may buy ghost estates

THE Department of Environment is in talks with English housing agencies about off-loading some of the thousands of empty properties in Irish ghost estates.

British agencies may buy ghost estates
Wed, 16 Mar, 2011 - 00:00
Juno McEnroe

It could see foreign housing agencies buying up such properties and providing them for social housing.

It is estimated that there are more than 2,800 incomplete or ghost estates here.

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