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How much is that house worth? A note on property tax calculators 13 Mar 2013 | 09:41 am
Over the weekend, Revenue Commissioners launched their guidance for the Local Property Tax, in the form of an interactive map. With just a couple of pieces of information (location, property type and ...
Slow and steady: Ireland’s competitiveness, five years on 15 Jan 2013 | 12:00 pm
One of the mantras of Celtic Tiger Ireland was that it was a rip-off Republic. And indeed, by 2006, Ireland had overtaken Finland to become the most expensive place in the eurozone for consumer goods....
Another fine mess! So you want to value some properties… 8 Jan 2013 | 10:11 am
Dear Government, Well, you can’t say you weren’t warned. Yes, it was a noisy time for all concerned, with plenty of people telling you they didn’t want to pay any sort of property tax, no matter how c...
A new dawn or the morning after the night before? 3 Jan 2013 | 06:00 am
As with every New Year’s period, the end of 2012 and start of 2013 has brought a significant amount of taking stock, from the global economic outlook down to the prospects for the Irish property marke...
An Election 2012 cheat-sheet – where to watch out for 1 Nov 2012 | 11:55 am
This roots of this blog actually lie in some miscellaneous thoughts on the U.S. Presidential election of 2008. Four years on, and another election less than a week away, I thought it would be useful –...
Uganda-gate: Debunking two myths about sub-Saharan Africa 26 Oct 2012 | 05:38 pm
Earlier in the week, news broke that some of Irish overseas development assistance to Uganda had been misappropriated by the Prime Minister’s office. In a Father Ted-style development, it seems that u...
The first house price index based on the house price register 16 Oct 2012 | 02:53 pm
Over the weekend, the Sunday Independent featured some analysis I’ve done with the help of the team at Daft.ie on the Residential Property Price Register (RPPR). The full report is available here (PDF...
Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated: existing house price reports respond 4 Oct 2012 | 11:57 am
There now follows a statement from Continuity EPR (Existing Property Reports), which was delivered to me anonymously in the dark of night. Hello. We are Continuity EPR. We represent existing property ...
First results from the property price register – the IMF effect and rising prices? 1 Oct 2012 | 01:55 pm
As I mentioned in my earlier post today, Ireland has –at long long last – a public property price register. I also mentioned that it is a tricky business to extract any meaningful signals about the ma...
Three tips for using Ireland’s property price register 1 Oct 2012 | 10:30 am
At long long last, Ireland has a property price register! The site went live hours before the revised deadline (end of Q3 2012), and there will hopefully be time in future to quibble about how it took...
