Housing crisis should be the focus of next year

Housing Campaign needed, says Tommy Barker.       

Recovery continued its swing back across most sectors of the property market through 2015 and into 2016, at least in terms of deals, sales, values, confidence and all other reference points.

Activity and momentum is back in force in the house market (though supply’s far too scant), hotel sales, bed nights and tourism are all on the rise, offices are finally being built to try to meet FDI demand, and investors once more see Irish property as a good play, after the vulture funds got their first feed at market slump a few years ago.