Softening house market?

There's no doubt in my mind that the current difficulty working people are having securing a home will have very significant political and societal consequences.

Between funds buying up blocks of property, councils also buying blocks of houses (in south Tipp alone without even looking I'm aware of 4 full developments bought by Tipperary council) there is an extreme shortage of affordable housing.

That along with childcare costs make buying a house today a very different things to generations ago.

Getting a qualification, working hard is part of a social contract where you get rewarded by having security of housing, health care etc. That's in tatters for huge numbers of people.

People who have comfortable lives ( and there's a lot of them, me included) are really unaware of the hardship.

Coupled with the perception of free houses for people who don't or barely work along with increased immigration there is a time bomb waiting.

Endlessly unsustainable increasing house prices aren't good for society in general but the comfortable don't realise that until it's their kids can't afford to buy a house.

Your own post !

The state is, at this stage, an engine of globalist agenda staffed by out rightly sinister individuals. It will do nothing to arrest the housing crisis because what we refer to as a crisis is a direct result of its own policies.  

For my own part, I would gladly face personal financial ruin if it meant that this mess could be righted for the sake of my godson and those still to come.

Conspiracy theories forum is a few down on the index. This type of post is not suitable here

Just on the qualification point; my dad, my older brother and me all have the same qualification (ACCA) and qualified approx 50, 22 and 10 years ago.

My dad bought a house when he was 25 on one income, had 4 kids and a very comfortable life.

My older brother qualified 22 years ago during the Celtic tiger boom and lives an extremely comfortable life (millionaire).

I qualified 10 years ago (post GFC) and live with my parents and my pregnant wife.

I figured if I could do the same as them, I would live somewhat comfortably, but it's a struggle and daily grind in Ireland for most people under 40.

The game looks the same but the rules have gotten a lot more difficult.

If only you had never tasted that first succulent avocado.

My brother and I have the same qualification. He is 2 years younger than I am. He is a shoulder to the wheel kind of person and will go for any promotion going. Im not really interested in trading more life for a promotion. While I do alright, he is earning easily twice as much as I am, because he had the luck, the contacts and the time put in to get where is is. While I have lots of family time now and treasure it, he is all about the job. Same qualification, different attitudes and different paths.

If I did see me earning less than him as a problem, I wouldnt be attemoting to shift the blame to anyone but myself.

As others have said you can take different accas and there can be a huge disparity in earning and how their career has gone, and people’s priorities will also be a factor.

You could even take chartered accountants from the same intake at a big 4 and observe the same differences.

Not a very comfortable life if he has an adult child and a daughteri-in -law and soon a grandchild living with him.