Thanks
@AlbacoreA totally appreciate that sentiment.
The lack of housing and increase in population is certainly putting pressure on housing.
So why is that alone by itself not enough to induce developers and builders to start building to meet demand?
From what I'm reading/hearing, RPZ's are the cause of dis-investment in housing development? Not an increase in population.
I'm only going by what is presented in front of me regularly.
Here is a thought over space and time -
I remember the creation of NAMA and the controversy it undertook.
In fairness to them, a very small agency, they seemed to have have done a great job in offloading the over-priced property folio of the defunct bank sector, aka 'pillar' banks, in a reasonably efficient and uncontroversial manner. If I'm not mistaken, ultimately providing a profitable return to the State's balance sheet!
Highly impressive!
Now I'm thinking, what were the inducing terms for foreign corporate investors to take up these property portfolios at the initial, or near, asking price before the market had actually reduced the price by 50% on average? Why would they pay a false, over-inflated market price?
So they could invest in building property for maximum market rents? And are now scuppered by govt RPZ's which was not part of the deal?
My impression - property prices fall following the NINJA loan epidemic by financial institutions in US.
Europe, namely the € and £ are caught on the hop. Ireland, in particular (along along with others) were ripe to fall.
A collapse of the entire monetary and economic system was oncoming.
So Ireland said - we will bailout out Europe! or Germany to be more precise. Not without a nudge from Trichet and the 'economic bomb'.
What did Ireland (and others like Greece, Portugal etc) get in return?
Quantitative Easing on massive scale began from the US. Who were also bankrupt but as they are in charge of the monetary supply they can print their own money. So much so, that peak property valuations began to be restored. Along with bank balance sheets, phew!
Those bankrupted bondholders that got a free pass from Ireland were duty bound to direct all the QE money printing back into the property portfolios to restore the equilibrium.
And how would they do that? They bought NAMA portfolios at pre-crash valuations. Restoring Irelands property balance sheet.
All wonderful accounting and financial jiggery-pokery! At its finest!!
Until...it all feeds into the lives of ordinary working people, accommodation crisis, Brexit, rise of Trump, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Israeli genocide of Gaza.....it all feeds in, at micro and macro level, in a corrupted centralised, corportasied banking economy.
For those who were there, here is a Kilkenomic chat show with Pat Kenny, David McWilliams and others as a fond reminder
The full uncut Pat Kenny Rte show from Kilkenomics 2012 Friday 2nd NovemberFeaturing Pat Rabbit (Irish Minister for communication & Resources)Max KeiserPat K...
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