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Waterford Commercial Property – Commerical property market to improve
irishtimes.com – Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2012, 08:13 The commercial property market should stabilise in 2012, according to property consultants CBRE. In its 2012 outlook published this morning, CBRE says it expects to see a notable increase in transaction volumes in all sectors of the market in 2012, though values will only stabilise once [...]
Read More >>Waterford Property – No restrictions to Section 23 Relief in Budget 2011
The Irish Times – Thursday, December 15, 2011 While welcoming the decision not to restrict Section 23 relief in the Budget, landlords are feeling besieged by the challenges facing them, writes FIONA REDDAN LANDLORDS ACROSS the country breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Government announced that it was not going to follow [...]
Read More >>Waterford Commercial Property – Cut in commercial rate of stamp duty suggested
RONAN McGREEVY The Irish Times – Monday, October 10, 2011 PROPERTY: A PROPOSAL to consider a drastic cut in the commercial rate of stamp duty arising out of the Global Irish Economic Forum has been welcomed by the Society of Chartered Surveyors. The Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, said delegates to the forum had impressed [...]
Read More >>Waterford Commercial Property – Upward-only rent reviews
Aine Coffey Published: 5 June 2011 The Sunday Times The coalition is considering axing the clause that keeps retail rents rising, but landlord challenges could bring it down to earth Ciaran Ruane will remember October 20, 2010 for a long time. It was the day Pulse Accessories, the family business started in 1992 in the [...]
Read More >>Waterford Property – Auction shows investor appetite
24 April 2011 Sunday Business Post It’s been an eventful fortnight for the property speculators. Following the successful auction of distressed properties by British auction house Allsop a certain air of excitement was unleashed in the property industry. The fire sale of properties saw a resurgence of that hysteria surrounding owning property that caused so [...]
Read More >>Waterford Property – Section 23 review to begin in May
24 April 2011 By Emma Kennedy Sunday Business Post The government’s promised economic impact assessment of the proposed changes to Section 23 relief will begin next month, following hundreds of submissions from property owners to the government on the issue. Last December’s budget announced a major clamp-down on legacy property-based tax reliefs, including a controversial [...]
Read More >>Waterford Commercial Property – AG urged to tackle rent reviews
By Geoff Percival Monday, April 04, 2011 ONE of the main representative bodies for the retail industry has called on new Attorney General, Maire Whelan, to tackle the ongoing issue of commercial rent rates by introducing legislation ending upward-only rent reviews for existing leases. Such a move, according to IBEC-affiliated body Retail Ireland, is urgently [...]
Read More >>Waterford Residential Property – US shows interest in Irish Property
TIM O’BRIEN The Irish Times – Monday, March 21, 2011 ONE IN three Irish-Americans has expressed an interest in buying property in Ireland at some stage this decade, according to a survey. The survey by Amárach Research/Irishcentral.com also found three-quarters of Irish-American retirees say they would look at spending part of each year based in [...]
Read More >>Waterford Residential Property – First Time Buyers to get €25,000 tax deal if they buy this year
By Niamh Hennessy Monday, March 14, 2011 FIRST-time buyers have been told they could receive a €25,000 windfall by purchasing a home this year. Mortgage interest for first-time buyers is being all but abolished from 2012, according to the director of the Irish Mortgage Corporation Frank Conway. He said however first-time buyers who buy this [...]
Read More >>Waterford Farmland – Average farmland prices fall 57% over past 4 years, report shows.
By Joe Dermody Friday, March 04, 2011 FARMLAND prices have been decimated by four years of nationwide decline, a report out this week shows. The Irish Farmers’ Journal Agricultural Land Price Report 2010 shows considerable regional variation, but average prices have fallen 57% nationally over the past four years. In Dublin, the average of €13,233 [...]
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