Dr. Conor McCabe
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first heard Dec 2025
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He's funding empty properties because these companies...
can make more yield, more money from empty properties than by renting them.
And he's pouring billions of our money into this kind of model.
Yeah, and what this all shows us that these kind of simplistic barstool arguments that are put forward that like, you know, oh, if we increase kind of supply, price will drop.
Well, that's not actually what's going on here.
They're not making their money from rentals.
They're making their money from their property portfolio.
And that's a different beast.
That is a different beast.
That is a portfolio of assets.
Some are rental and then some are actually just by...
by staying empty, they can still kind of make money then from that.
And he's funding empty properties because it's not a housing policy.
It is an asset appreciation policy.
And that's a different beast.
I mean, like, again, this goes back to the, again, like, you know, Ireland is the land of myths and legends.
And, like, one of the things that is really problematic as you're going to get forward is this idea that, but first of all, that
Home ownership as a percentage of the housing stock has been falling since 1991.
It fell all during Dick and the Celtic Tiger years.
And that was not the narrative that we remember in those kind of halcyon days of 2005, ages prior to the thing, whereby you had kind of, you know,
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