Ciarán Hancock

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · How many new homes does Ireland really need? · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

With holiday homes and Yeah, and

Now some listeners might say, Well, she would say that, wouldn't she?

Because uh Marion's running the biggest estate agent in the country and obviously this is uh more houses means more uh stock for you to sell, it's good for your business, et cetera.

Um this uh tax strategy uh group uh of of papers which outlines forty six tax measures, I mean that's probably actually only skimming the surface because there were other uh measures taken by uh the government which have uh implications for the property market.

Um Marion, in terms of the upcoming budget in October, what should the government be doing?

what, one offs, they're institutional?

schemes or whatever.

John, uh in terms of October's budget, what do you think the government should do?

If Glenvey is getting a grant, um it was announced today of eight hundred and sixty grand from Enterprise Ireland for some R and D on I think it's modular homes.

those profits?

Measures are supposed to encourage uh apartment building, which we're told we need more of for density purposes and and so forth.

I mean that's uh sorry, that's the thinking behind it.

Marian, isn't it, that we're not able to at a time of huge demand, that we're not not able to the developers tell us they're not able to uh build apartments uh viably and that they need to be supported by tax breaks.

But isn't it a bit screwy that a developer would go out and buy a site, knowing full well that all they can put in that site is apartments.

And then they come they hold up their throw up their hands a few years later and say, We can't afford to build uh apartments on this site because uh you know That's the unusual case though.

We've got to take out lifts, we've got to take out car parking spaces, we've got to do all of this.

And yet when they bought the site, they knew full well what the costs of building an

were.

matter even if they uh even if it is a mixed use game, they've obviously parceled off a a portion because

Because of the uh development plans and so forth, they have to have a certain density.

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