Surely in Dublin they could build and make a profit now?
I don't think you'll see anything except apartments and small houses being built inside the m50 in the future except in premium developments. They don't need to be shoe boxes but we need higher density, well thought out housing.
The standard of high density housing is appalling in Dublin. I lived in a beautiful block, huge apartments, couldn't hear a sound from neighbors, great privacy the way it was set up back from a main road in it's own grounds, but the were built sometime in the 90s. I would never have considered apartments as a long term home until I lived there. Anything from the bubble years seems to be disgraceful. We need focus on building apartments that serve as actual homes, rather than an overpriced cardboard box to lay your head while the whole of the 46A commuters peer in your window