Estate agent predicts 'largely stable' house prices this year amid 'volatile' rent increases

The country's largest real estate agent has issued a downbeat assessment of the housing market in 2020, warning that it has deteriorated in the last year and that the issues are unlikely to abate soon.

Marian Finnegan, managing director of Sherry FitzGerald, said "restrictive lending policies" has caused a collapse in price growth in many parts of the country.