The housing crisis truly keeps on going, doesn’t it? It’s tough to believe that the housing situation in Ireland is still defined as a crisis, even after all this time. Things take some time to fix, there aren’t overnight fixes to problems as complex as housing, but this particular crisis appears immovable in its tenacity […]
2 years ago
A cheerful statistic to brighten the first week of 2023. A MyHome.ie report has found that the average price of a house is now nearly eight times the average wage. According to The Journal, “The report, published this morning, found that the average household residential purchase in the third quarter of 2022 was €370,000, […]
3 years ago
Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland (BPFI) published some very worrying statistics in its latest Housing Market Monitor. According to a new report from the BPFI, the average cost of rent in Ireland has increased by an alarming 82% in the last twelve years. This stark figure comes as a comparison to the EU, whose […]
3 years ago
Your pension could be paying your rent in your later years. As homeownership rates continue to drop, one study has found that one in two young people will still be renting by the time they reach retirement age. The statistic was published in the “Future trends in housing tenure and the adequacy of retirement income” […]
3 years ago
Not an award we were hoping to win… Once again, Ireland wins for something that is less than savoury, as the most expensive EU country for every day living. Disappointing, but unfortunately not surprising to anyone who’s lived here in recent years, we now sit alongside Denmark when it comes to cost of living. […]
3 years ago
And I don’t mean it in a unique, idyllic boarding school-themed type staycation way. In the latest instalment of housing hell in Ireland, you can rent a single “bedroom” in an abandoned school in New Ross, Wexford for €275 a month. On the off chance that you’re thinking ‘wow, an old school could actually be […]
4 years ago