Irish Examiner View: Improvement  still awaited on housing problem

The biggest fall in house prices in a decade was always likely to attract headlines, and so it proved when the findings of the latest daft.ie report were published
Irish Examiner View: Improvement  still awaited on housing problem

 Also heard this week were new proposals which Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien wants included in guidelines for planning authorities, such as a reduction in garden sizes and possible elimination of car parking spaces in new developments.
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The biggest fall in house prices in a decade was always likely to attract headlines, and so it proved when the findings of the latest daft.ie report were published.

Those findings caught the eye, when stating that house prices fell nationally by an average of 0.3% in the first quarter of this year, the biggest drop in price since the first three months of 2012.

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