Ciarán Hancock

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

So they know that a certain portion of it will have to be uh apartments and it'll roughly be, you know, whatever it is, a hundred and fifty, two hundred and fifty apartments, whatever.

And they know roughly what it's going to cost for those apartments and yet they still buy the sites, knowing full well, apparently, that they can't build them because it's not

Okay, before I let you go, uh and thank you for your uh commentary and your views and uh this robust discussion that we've had on housing.

Uh John, I just wanted to ask you, because commercial property was your baby for a long time, I wanted to ask you about we had a piece last week, very good piece by Killian Woods about empty offices uh in Dublin.

And there's one across the road from the Irish Times here which was let by Marlot to uh workday last year, and it was the biggest uh such letting.

in Europe uh post uh COVID and they were letting the whole space.

But um in the course of his work, uh Killian discovered that actually uh Workday is planning to sublet, I think twenty percent of the uh space there.

So it's bringing that back to to market.

What's your what's your view on that?

And and you I mean you've been highlighting

uh the situation in in terms of empty offices around uh Dublin now for a long time.

Okay, Marion, you want to come in on this and y you should point out that you guys are back in the commercial property space, haven't been out of it for a number of years.

Okay.

Well

the last word on this, John.

All right, okay.

We might do that another day on another uh podcast.

But for today my thanks to Marion Finnegan and John McCartney.

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