Irish Examiner view: Alarm bells as house prices continue to rise

House prices rose at an annual rate of 6.9% in June while rents jumped by 5.6%, with especially big rises outside Dublin
Irish Examiner view: Alarm bells as house prices continue to rise

According to Irish Institutional Property, because of Ireland’s changing demographics, the State will need to build 50,000 homes a year for the next 30 years. File picture:  Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

Managing markets to sustain some sort of equilibrium is a political and philosophical challenge most governments try to avoid until they must intervene to avert looming chaos. 

That Hapag-Lloyd, one of the world’s largest shipping companies, has just reported first-half profits of €2.7bn, far in excess of anything made over the previous decade, suggests such a moment may be at hand.

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