Ronan Lyons is Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, where his primary research areas are housing markets, urban economics, and economic history.
Our housing crisis traces back to a dysfunctional market for land. The good news is that the problems are self-inflicted, and they can be fixed.
Higher education is about community and conversation as much as instruction. That's why in-person higher education is here to stay. To match demand, Ireland needs to more than double its student accommodation in the next ten years.
While official sources imply that private market rents increased 22-fold between 1948 and 2018, new research we have conducted over the last number of years found it to be a 90-fold increase. The data also reveals startling new number on yields and house prices.
If working from home becomes the new normal, would the pressure on the Dublin property market be relieved? Could house prices fall? To answer that question, you need to understand the dynamics of the housing market.
Ireland’s cities are burdened by a persistent shortage of space of all kinds, especially residential. Plus, given the country’s need to go carbon-neutral over the coming decades, Ireland can - and should - go tall.
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