Ciarán Hancock

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

Why wouldn't builders build in those kinds of things?

Well the vacan

wonder is there a quirk to the census and and you would know this uh better than I would, but like a l on a lot of farms, there is the original farmhouse which is no longer used, and maybe it doesn't have a roof anymore, it doesn't have windows or it's not habitable, really.

But it's still a property, it's still registered, it's on the land register or whatever.

farmhouses with a roof, with windows, with a door.

Okay.

Uh but they're not uh there's nobody living inside because generally speaking they're not habitable.

Sure.

But in in terms of the West of Ireland, the prices are growing uh or uh border counties if prices are growing at more than ten percent uh as the CSO figures are are showing.

It's only one month, okay, but I think it's a trend uh going on for another one month.

Uh if that's the case, why aren't property developers uh moving into that market and saying, well, you know, there's huge demand here, clearly.

So uh let's let's act on that.

Let's let's build some more houses, let's build uh apartments.

etcetera.

And do we need initiatives such as what Marion has uh outlined to try and stimulate that demand?

think it can be solved by vacancy?

We did have some of that white elephant development, didn't we, in in the Celtic Target years?

We did.

With holiday homes and

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