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🇪🇺 Sunday Property Round-Up 6th September 2026

🇪🇺 Sunday Property Round-Up 6th September 2026 

🇪🇺 Sunday Property Round-Up 6th September 2026 

Weekly Irish property market news and insights – for the industry, by the industry

📧 All stories are covered in full in this week’s Sunday Property Round-Up on iProperty Radio, powered by Property District — now the largest weekly newsletter BY and FOR Ireland’s real estate and construction industry. Not in your inbox yet?  Email carol@caroltallon.com for a copy

PROPERTY DISTRICT PRESS OFFICE 

Below are the local and international stories that might be of particular interest:

  • Sediment deposits dating back 1.5 million years found during Celtic Interconnector construction: Archaeological works were undertaken on land along the cable route, with finds including fragments of a 9th- to 10th-century clay tuyere from the Killeagh pavement scheme https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41904673.html

🇪🇺 Week 10 of 26: Cork is Ireland’s Most Rooted County: people rarely leave — and when they do, they return https://placeengage.com/irelands-most-rooted-county-people-rarely-leave-and-when-they-do-they-return/ 

·584,156 people

· 72% born in the county, the highest of any county in Ireland

· 82% of movers stayed inside the county

· median achieved house price €384,999

· new-tenancy rent €1,568 county-wide, €1,756 in the city

· 899 completions last quarter, 140 of them apartments

· 3,770 homes under construction, second only to Dublin

· commercial vacancy 12.8%

· 66 towns with their own price median, from €169,000 to €672,500

· 111 homes to rent long-term across the whole county outside Cork City

If you missed last week’s round-up, you can catch up here: https://ipropertyradio.com/sunday-property-round-up/ 
As always, you might let me know if I have missed out on any relevant property news by emailing carol@caroltallon.com 

PLACEMAKING: https://placeengage.com

Open public consultations and community engagement, in association with the Public Consultation Institute of Ireland

  • Over 100 people attended a second public meeting yesterday evening, over concerns about manufactured modular homes appearing suddenly in an Offaly village. Four such developments were brought in overnight on lowloaders onto farmland in Belmont last week, with attention being brought to Councillors in the local authority https://www.midlands103.com/news/midlands-news/over-100-attend-public-meeting-over-modular-homes-in-offaly/ https://www.midlands103.com/news/midlands-news/over-100-attend-public-meeting-over-modular-homes-in-offaly/

Rural, Coastal & Islands

CONSTRUCTION: https://breakingground.news 

  • 📌 Build Digital National Conference 2026 – Bookings now open: On 8 October, the people planning, funding, designing and delivering Ireland’s infrastructure will gather in one room to collaboratively explore – in practical detail – what resilient infrastructure actually demands, the systems the network needs to withstand and respond to changing conditions, and how the Irish BIM mandate, aligned with ISO 19650, is already changing delivery, governance and lifecycle asset management on public projects https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-digital-national-conference-2026-climate-resilient-infrastructure-tickets-1999786855317 
  • Winthrop Technologies, a data centre construction services company, has reported pre-tax profits of €131 million for 2025, up 27 per cent on 2024, writes Linda Daly in The Times, Irish Edition: Anne Dooley, chief executive of the group, said the results reflected “both the strength of the data centre market” and the company’s “ability to meet its evolving demands, including a laser focus on leveraging state of the art technology, AI solutions as well as incorporating off-site manufacturing solutions”. Winthrop employs more than 1,100 people and expects to grow that number to 1,300 by the end of this year. More than 100 hires are going through the company’s graduate programme. Set up by Barry English in 1995, Winthrop has focused on turnkey data centres since 2015. Its clients have included Google and Microsoft. https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/business-news-ireland-latest-updates-2rxwbtm2x
  • PJ Hegarty: Looking back at a 100-year legacy — Many will be familiar with the name PJ Hegarty. First founded by Patrick Joseph Hegarty in 1925 as a small store on Meade Street in Cork, the company has grown dramatically over the past century.  Today, PJ Hegarty is a leading construction business, operating across both Ireland and the UK, delivering large-scale projects and recording a turnover of €500 million last year https://constructionwave.co.uk/2026/09/04/pj-hegarty-looking-back-at-a-100-year-legacy/

Videos at: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5hAEpymn6vkMufB3bbgNrSiRg4e0AoOw&si=AVjM7CeRSFcp3HeA 

Breaking Ground News: Appointments & Construction Careers

  • BGN Construction Careers, your weekly newsletter from Breaking Ground news, keeps you updated on the latest job opportunities, while showcasing the very best employer brands and projects, across Ireland’s construction industry. Whether you are looking for your next role or planning your career path, stay connected with us for new openings, upskilling opportunities and industry news. Get all the latest job details straight to your inbox: Sign up https://breakingground.news/sign-up-form/

CIF Safety Campaign 2026 Podcast 

🏗️ August’s Construction Industry Federation (CIF) safety theme is: LIFTING & LOADING, aligning with the Health and Safety Authority inspectorate’s thematic campaign.

Lifting operations carry significant risk — heavy and elevated loads, fixed and mobile plant, and a constant demand for coordination between everyone on site.

Our thanks to Dan McAuliffe, Tommy and to roof banksman, Aaron, for demonstrating a safe lift on site with Cairn at Holybanks, Swords, with Neil Lenehan, EHS Director with Cairn, John Egan, Executive Safety, Health & Skills with the Construction Industry Federation (CIF), and Joan Flynn, Senior Inspector with the Health and Safety Authority.

This month, take the opportunity to:

🔺 Review your Lift Plans

🔺Confirm all lifting gear (chains, slings and similar) is appropriately certified, pre-use checks are completed, and records are maintained

🔺Check the training requirements and competence of everyone involved — Plant Operator, Slinger/Signaller/banksman, Appointed Person, Lift Supervisor

Also, a reminder on excavators: operators involved in basic lifting operations require the appropriate CSCS. Where that CSCS was obtained before May 2026, evidence of add-on training covering lifting operations with excavators is required, as set out in CIF Guidance GN-25-02 (Rev.1)

📽️ Katie Tallon MPRII

🎙️ Construction Industry Federation (CIF) #CIFSafety26 Podcast — the full 2025 & 2026 series is now live

Over the past 12 months, we took the mic onto live construction sites across Ireland — from a European HQ in Dublin’s Docklands to the largest Capex energy project in the State — to talk safety with the people building it.

Hosted by Sean Downey, Director of Safety, Education and Skills, and John Egan, Executive, every conversation puts real site experience at the centre of the safety story.

You can now catch up on the entire series:

📽️ Watch every episode → https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5hAEpymn6vnhCbgSqe6T8TJTfB9mvD6C&si=sieKYKVtXiUohkBi 

🎧 Listen back → https://open.spotify.com/show/2SQXVgyerkhnxh80jnEORZ?si=94f05ae7c5b04adb

Produced by Katie Tallon MPRII

REAL ESTATE: www.irishrealestate.news

Residential 

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🎙️ COMMUNITY VOICES: Carol Tallon in conversation with Frank O’Connor of #DerelictIreland

One of the richest, most wide-ranging, placemaking conversations of this 26-county, 26-week non-political placemaking tour so far

📽️ Watch in full: https://youtu.be/S8M44XTYrxY

Full details 🔗 https://caroltallon.substack.com/p/community-voices-carol-tallon-in?r=5v30&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

*A note on the video — by way of apology, and fair warning. This conversation was not on the  iProperty Radio production schedule and I was without crew, so it is the first time we recorded on a mobile phone only: no microphones, on a busy quay in full sun, beside a working street. The camera angles were under the direction of a lovely dog of indeterminate breed — Rico, taking his first production credit. If you listen closely you will hear passers-by stopping to tell him what a beautiful creature he is, which is true 🐾

🎙️ Housing Insights Podcast by The Housing Agency


The latest series of Housing Insights is out now, bringing expert analysis, practical advice, and real lived experiences straight from the heart of Ireland’s housing sector.

Hosts Roslyn Molloy and David Silke explore four critical areas shaping housing today:

  • The role of apartments and MUDs in Ireland’s housing system: Roslyn sits down with David Rouse and Lisa Marie Sheehy to break down OMCs, service charges, sinking funds, and future regulations for managed communities.
  • Social Housing Options: David speaks with Patrick McCarthy to unpack eligibility, Choice-Based Lettings, differential rents, and navigating local authority application processes.
  • My Homelessness to Housing First Journey: A powerful conversation between Rob Lowth and Housing First tenant John on lived experience, breaking the cycle of homelessness, and the transformational impact of permanent housing with wrap-around support.
  • Biodiversity in Housing: Roslyn is joined by Susan Vickers (Clúid Housing) and Haley Curran to explore nature-based design, estate retrofitting, and resident-led biodiversity projects.

Whether you are a housing professional, local authority officer, resident, or policymaker, there is an episode for you – listen to all new episodes now: 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5dSJNN6dyWZ4Wp6Of95l1D?si=48457d360fb74213&nd=1&dlsi=444fb6f5b1a8444f 

The Housing Agency’s website: https://www.housingagency.ie/news-events/housing-insights-housing-agency-podcast-series 

🌏 Links to all episodes at iProperty Radio:  https://ipropertyradio.com/housing-agency/

PROPTECH, CONSTRUCTION TECH & SMART CITIES: https://prop-tech.ie/

Proptech Ireland is updating the database of 2026 Irish technology providers for the built environment – sign up here: https://prop-tech.ie/register/  and email product or service details to hello@prop-tech.ie

  • Proptech Ireland: Ireland’s CONSTRUCTION and REAL ESTATE ESG technologies resource hub. Confused about how and where to start on your ESG journey? Contact us 👉https://prop-tech.ie

PODCAST: The Proptech Hot Seat on iPropertyRadio.com

Proptech Hot seat is sponsored by Proptech Ireland, the hub for innovators, investors and industry leaders https://prop-tech.ie/ 

Produced by Katie Tallon, with Hear Me Roar Media on sound https://hearmeroarmedia.com 

All Proptech Hot Seat episodes –  https://ipropertyradio.com/proptech-hot-seat/ 

INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT & BIODIVERSITY

  • Carrigaline is now a ‘priority location’ for Uisce Éireann investment: Last month Cork County Council adopted a variation to the county development plan 2022-2028 that will facilitate the delivery of at least 38,370 homes over the next decade, with capacity for as many as 50,000. https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41906725.html

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