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Sunday Property Round-Up 9th November 2025

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

Message from Carol Tallon:

“We can’t tell people in their 30s: ‘Don’t worry – we’ll have a home for you in 10 years’…”

Those are not my words in the Business Post today, but the words of the Chair of Ireland’s Housing Commission – and they capture the boiling point of frustration now felt across the industry and among would-be homebuyers alike.

With Government now acknowledging that Ireland’s housing crisis could persist for another decade and a half, the Sunday papers are awash with takes on why the next iteration of Housing for All – due next Thursday – is “doomed”. That’s nonsense. It’s unhelpful too, given the data, technical knowledge and on-the-ground project insights available to us right now. 

This week – across Ireland and in Brussels – I will be gathering multidisciplinary people who have already been involved with housing delivery on the ground to explore spatial planning/placemaking, large-scale infrastructure (including PPP), modular and off-site manufacture of homes, and inclusive community engagement. The brief is simple and urgent – scenario-plan what an emergency response to deliver 250,000 homes would look like, in parallel with meeting Ireland’s ongoing 60,000+ homes per year requirement. This is not a slightly faster version of business-as-usual; it’s a second, emergency strand that cuts through bottlenecks and sequences infrastructure up-front.

We are all too familiar with the “WHY it won’t work” list. I’m asking HOW it could. If you have project or experience-informed ideas – procurement that actually mobilises, design-for-manufacture approaches that scale, site-readiness models that align utilities and transport, delivery authorities that hold real power, or engagement frameworks that earn local consent – please get in touch with me today. I have already put this to a number of homebuilders in recent days and I genuinely appreciate the contributions so far (I hear the frustration – when the PR people are saying “that’s enough PR”, it’s time to stop talking and start doing).

As always, you can contact me in confidence by emailing carol@caroltallon.com 

PROPERTY DISTRICT PRESS OFFICE 

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

  • Uisce Éireann to take over wastewater facilities from developers in minister’s plan: Housing minister James Browne has said that he is determined to ‘unlock problematic water services infrastructure that is constraining the delivery of homes people need built’ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41736012.html
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 

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PODCAST:  

This is NOT your typical ‘Construction Leaders’ interview…I had the opportunity to sit down with Ciaran Fitzpatrick of Fitzpatrick & Heavey Homes for iProperty Radio – and what makes this conversation so different is that we went right back to the beginning.

We talked about how Ciaran and the team got their first development off the ground, despite Ireland’s high-risk, policy-uncertain environment?

Ciaran breaks it down step-by-step:

➡️ Moving from ambition to action

➡️ Structuring that crucial first deal

➡️ Securing partners, investment & lending support

➡️Managing planning and delivery risk

➡️Building trust while still building a track record

This is the conversation I would love to have heard a decade and a half ago.

For anyone who believes in Ireland’s ability to build – and wants to be part of it – this is essential listening.

We also discuss how Fitzpatrick & Heavey is on track to break ground on 10,000 new homes over the next three years; their partnership-led land strategy, including absorbing RZLT to unlock stalled sites; expansion into materials and supply chain to control delivery certainty; and a business model built around speed, pragmatism and community-scale impact

Ciaran and his team are navigating risk – not waiting for it to disappear. And that’s the kind of leadership this industry needs right now.

🎧 Listen back: https://open.spotify.com/show/6QU2UipCdyYe4e154IzhKR 

 Watch in full video: https://youtu.be/1PPqySeEaPY 

REAL ESTATE: www.irishrealestate.news

Residential 

Here are the derelict buildings around Ireland that councils asked to CPO in October: Just two councils sought to CPO houses last month https://www.thejournal.ie/derelict-houses-ireland-cpo-councils-6860787-Nov2025/

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💡 Housing Deficit vs. Housing Demand

Do you understand the difference between addressing Ireland’s housing DEFICIT (a decade of under-delivery estimated to be in the region of 250,000+ homes) and catering to ongoing housing DEMAND  (anywhere between 36,000-80,000pa, depending upon your ideology and your news source )?

The Housing Commission tried to explain this to government and policymakers, however, as is clear from this interview with Carol Tallon within the European Parliment, John O’Connor, who chaired the Housing Commission, believes that the two ‘needs’ are being conflated – to our national detriment – despite it being the #1 recommendation in the Commission’s own report…

⁉️ Might “emergency UDZs” play a role?

🔴 🔴 ⭕ If this distinction were properly understood, an emergency response to housing delivery to address the deficit – similar to our Covid response – might actually be forthcoming…

*Interview recorded post-launch of Housing Europe‘s most recent ‘State of Housing…’ report 2025 by Sorcha Edwards, hosted by Ciaran Mullooly, MEP

Watch in full: https://youtu.be/TkYEpKJjZak?si=PrS9KiD-kvusJyv1

Produced by Katie Tallon 

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FACEBOOK group for homebuyers and investors in Ireland 2024: https://www.facebook.com/groups/IrishPropertyBuyers/ 

Further property resources at: https://www.amazon.com/Carol-Tallon/

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PODCAST: The Proptech Hot Seat on iPropertyRadio.com

📣 This week on the Proptech Hot Seat podcast on iProperty Radio, in association with Proptech Ireland, guest host and PR lead with Property District, Cróna Esler, sits down with Maryrose Lyons, Founder of the AI Institute, to discuss the work the AI Institute and some of their upcoming courses, including their new AI Core Skills online course, starting on November 13th, link to register in the comments!

🎙️ Full episode here – https://youtu.be/dCmIAVFtkIE

📣 Listen back- https://open.spotify.com/show/7JHA5uEH2OhQUrlcri0aEa?si=79da63b7ccaa41f6

Produced by Katie Tallon

All previous episodes of the Proptech Hot Seat can be found at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5hAEpymn6vnSmFt4WXloS0IQNfUkdw2G&si=qeT3RSVaXBPX3Sxd

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/ 


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