Students face tough choices as rents surpass Celtic Tiger peak.

Rents rocket 40% since 2011 with Dublin rates up 11.1% over last year, shows Daft.ie report .

Housing Agency plans to buy vacant homes for social housing.

The chief executive of the Housing Agency has said it plans to buy vacant houses in "larger portfolios" from banks and investment companies and sell them to local authorities for social housing.

Housing waiting list rules to be radically overhauled.

People waiting for social housing will be allowed express preference for properties.

Activity in construction sector continues to rise - Ulster Bank PMI.

There was another pick-up in activity in the construction sector during July, according to the latest Purchasing Managers’ Index from Ulster Bank.

Rise In Rent Supplement.

Rent supplements and housing assistance payments to be increased from Friday 01/07/2016, Ministers confirm.

Dublin rents now higher than 2007 peak.

The cost of renting a home in Dublin city is now marginally higher than the previous peak recorded in late 2007, according to the latest rental index from the Residential Tenancies Board.

Coveney: No Govt plans to forcibly take vacant properties.

The Government has no plans to forcibly take possession of vacant properties, according to Minister for Housing Simon Coveney.

Report estimates there are almost 250,000 vacant properties.

Chairman of the Housing Agency Conor Skehan has said more needs to be done to solve the housing crisis than just building new homes.

Workers’ Party publishes costed proposal for cross-subsidised public housing.

Fr. Peter McVerry welcomes ‘Solidarity Housing’ as important contribution to thinking on housing

Statutory declaration must now be signed if tenants evicted in order to sell property.

New rent measures ‘designed to frustrate’, landlords say.

Some social housing units unoccupied for more than a year between tenants.

It is taking more than a year to get social housing units ready for new tenants after they have been vacated in some parts of the country.

Modular homes construction costs rise by 140%

It has emerged modular homes being built to alleviate the homelessness crisis in Dublin will end up costing taxpayers over €240,000 each.

Asking prices for houses nationwide up by 2.1% in Q1.

Research from property website Myhome.ie indicates that property prices are showing renewed signs of momentum.

83 families became homeless in February, says charity.

New figures from Focus Ireland show that 83 families became homeless in February.

ESRI says mortgage rules should be modified.

The Economic and Social Research Institute has said that the Central Bank's mortgage lending rules should be modified to ensure more housing is built.

However, it also recommends that a modified rule would work to prevent an oversupply of housing, as happened during the last decade.