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Property insights with Johnny Gannon, Fair Deal Property

Property insights with Johnny Gannon, Fair Deal Property

For generations, the Irish rental market was not built by funds. It was built by ordinary people: the teacher who kept the first house after moving, the farmer who bought a flat in town, the couple whose one rental property was their pension.

Walk from Eyre Square out the Headford Road or along the Dublin Road and count the buildings between four and six storeys high. You will not need both hands. Galway is a city of two-storey estates on the edge and a scattering of apartment blocks in the middle, with almost nothing in between. That gap is exactly where the homes we need should be going.

Property insights with Johnny Gannon

Property insights with Johnny Gannon Fair Deal Property

Ireland's housing crisis has become a moving crisis, and we must begin treating it as such. We rightly talk about new supply, affordability and the challenge facing younger buyers. But a healthy housing market does not work only by adding homes at one end. It also depends on people being able to move through it at every stage of life. Today, too many households are stuck because the right alternative does not exist. Movers hold the key to freeing up vast swathes of housing stock, but they are not being assisted or incentivised to move.

Property insights with Johnny Gannon, Fair Deal Property

Property insights with Johnny Gannon, Fair Deal Property

Give the Government its due: real strides have been made on the two problems that dogged housing delivery for a decade. Infrastructure investment is finally flowing and the rezoning of land is at last being tackled seriously. Over the next twelve months I expect an ample supply of zoned, serviced land to come on stream. That is a big win. But solving land only exposes the next bottleneck, and it is a serious one: money.