Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) provide cost rental and social housing in Ireland. Even though some of these AHBs are charities, they rely on government funding nonetheless to achieve this.According to the 2024 Irish Property Price register approximately 41 property schemes worth a total of €911m were bought by Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) or the Land …
Having set up our Housing Action Group in 2021 we hold a yearly review of the changes made by the Irish government to solve the housing shortage.Yes, it introduced a co-ownership scheme for first time buyers of new builds,Yes, the Croi Conaithe grant to renovate derelict properties is changing our town’s scape slowly,Yes, the local …
Daft.ie currently has 66 properties for sale in the Sligo metropolitan area, but only 6 for rent. Yes! There are houses to buy with supports in place if you are in a position to buy. Yes! There are vacant properties that can be renovated, with support in place, if you are in a position to …
High Street, Sligo As the sun shone down on the newly cleared site on High Street last week, Â I wondered, that while a piece of history has gone, what took so long?
Every time I drive towards Ballisodare I wonder at the big white vacant apartment buildings stretching nearly a street long. Looking out on the beautiful river they are slowly rotting away. Then as I drive through the village, I come to the new development of houses and apartments on the other side of the river. …
Ballisodare’s White Elephant Thanks you Cesar, for filming and editing.
It’s good to see scaffolding popping up on some of Sligo’s derelictsThese three houses on Chapel Street earned a place on Simon Matthew’s 2023/2024 vacancy/derelict survey.https://sligohag.ie/empty-buildings-and-land-survey-2023-2024/However, the scaffolding is up, and work has started on restoration.Onwards & upwards!
The housing commission was established in 2021 by Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien to figure out what to do about the housing crises in Ireland. Eh that’s good! A few weeks ago (two and a half years later) its report was leaked to the Media. Horror of Horrors! Out of eighty-three recommendations the most illuminating is …
And the beat goes on! Housing Commission Report. Read More »
It was heartening to read in the Sligo Champion about a new strategy from the Department of Housing under the “Housing for All” umbrella. Sligo County Council are requesting expressions of interest from builders, developers & property owners to provide turnkey homes, to be purchased by the Council and allocated to some of the 1,500 …
Why are there 174 short term rentals as opposed to 10 long term available in Sligo town and surroundings? It could be the taxation, but “the devil is in the details”, on that one. So, what gives? Well, a one-bedroom apartment on High Street was renting long term for 900 per month (it’s probably gone …