New homes helping with progress to ease pressure on demand for housing

Tommy Barker, Property Editor, reports on some positive signs within Ireland’s mounting pressure on demand for housing

The country’s dysfunctional housing market will be a pivot point for politics in the upcoming election.

Except for the fact that the political slogan “A lot done, More to do” was used in a previous political/election context — and has been widely ridiculed since — you could quite easily imagine some, or all, of the three main political parties yearning to wheel out the boast with the subtext that “we’re on the right road, bear with us” for whenever the next election is set, and for when housing will inevitably dominate the discourse.

The writing has been on the cards for quite a while that the country’s as-ever dysfunctional housing market will be a pivot point for politics, as much as for the wider and increasingly impatient populace.