Rents and house prices up in Limerick and Cork as Munster cities become investor playgrounds

Rents have increased across Munster counties and house purchase prices have more than doubled since 2015, while 14,000 households wait for social housing 

The setting sun silhouettes the tower cranes and apartments under construction by Glenveagh Homes in the docklands in Cork City;  in the city, out of almost 1,500 new homes, just 11 new apartments and 19 new houses were sold on the open market last year.   Picture: Larry Cummins

Munster has many of the same housing issues as Dublin; a lot of media coverage of the never-ending saga that is our (latest) housing crisis tends to focus on Dublin and the east of the country. 

However, the effects of the housing crisis are national, and particularly in our large urban areas and their hinterlands, such as Cork and Limerick cities.