A preliminary analysis of local property tax (LPT) returns by the Revenue Commissioners shows there is a “low” number of vacant residential units across the country, according to Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe.
Just before the first lockdown in March 2020, I strayed beyond my retail comfort zone and crossed the threshold of Patagonia on Dublin’s Exchequer Street. For some, clearly misguided, reason I had always associated Patagonia with the kind of people who book their treks to Machu Picchu or the Camino with Trailfinders on nearby Dawson Street. Or hippy dippy types whose big ambition was to live off-grid on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland for a year or two.
Global property giant Kennedy Wilson is benefiting from rising rents in a “buzzing” Dublin city, as well as from its decision to stockpile construction materials here over the past two years.
