Conall MacCoille
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222 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jun
Conall MacCoille’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think it's something we need to think about.
I'd have to go and do my sums on that.
I'm not positioned to say if that's true or not.
I mean, the VAT rate being cut will certainly help with the fringes.
But if you look at apartment building, I mean, these apartment blocks have been sold to approved housing bodies, county councils.
Before that, you know, pension funds and international institutional investors.
And what's very clear is that there has been a market for ordinary homebuyers.
Ordinary homebuyers are not willing to buy apartments at the cost to build of maybe even over €500,000.
So they prefer to live in...
you know, suburbia, further out from town in a traditional house.
So there's a kind of real viability issue around apartment building.
The pickup in interest rates that we saw, if we look at, say, a German 10-year bundle today, it's still around 2.7%, rather than being close to zero four or five years ago.
So that, you know, there still is a very big issue around viability and, you know, buyers of these apartments
Apart from blocks outside of approved housing bodies and county councils.
So, look, it will help on the fringes.
We'll see if, you know, there's very deep viability issue, which is very difficult to address.
Well, the numbers there have been actually encouraging.
At the start of the year, there seemed to be an extraordinary amount of hysteria around the fact that the end 2024 number was a little bit weaker than expected.
It was an even 30,000.
So 32,000 are built over the past 12 months.
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