pablo128 wrote: » ???
To Elland Back wrote: » There are only 2 political parties who contest the presidential election in the USA, which is the biggest democracy in the world. However, they call crisps "chips", so their system doesn't work either
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » Takes time to go through the planning process in this country. Also pisses a lot of developers off the number of rules that councils have put down regarding height and scale. Look at Dublin's docklands. If the council stopped preventing more than 4 storey shoe boxes being put up 1,000's upon 1,000's of apartments could be delivered there. The state apparatus like the councils are even more responsible for the housing shortage than anyone else.
pablo128 wrote: » There are reported queues of 50 to 60 people looking to view properties, rising prices, bidding wars etc. There doesn't appear to be any shortage of buyers.
daUbiq wrote: » The same idiots vote for both parties. We are a country of sheeple...
Grayson wrote: » I dislike some property developers. Mainly the ones who have massive debts to banks we bailed out and refuse to cough up the dough. The rest I'm not fond off, but in the same way I dislike politicians. It's just a general prejudice I tend to hold. Considering I know feck all developers, or politicians, it's not really doing me, or anyone else much harm.
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » Who else was going to buy them? Tell us. People say this and that but they are not dealing with reality. In 2010 this country was an absolute basketcase. You need big resources to risk investing in a broken economy on the chance things may lift. The Irish developers were smashed. NAMA were right to sell to the highest bidders. It's them same investment companies that are now queuing with planning applications. NO Irish investors to my knowledge are in any position to do that atm.
pablo128 wrote: » While the thread title is a bit misleading, I agree with the tone of the post. I thought the state was supposed to look after its citizens, not sell a load of apartments to foreign investors in the middle of a housing crisis. All that rent is now flowing out of the country. Well done Nama.
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » This is the rubbish we do hear from the left. It's just not true. People want to believe it in their own heads to confirm their own prejudices against anyone with more money than them. In layman's terms - begrudgery. The ire for property developers is the best example. On the one hand people want them punished (for what no one knows) and on the other there are not enough houses because we need developers to build them. Go figure. On the tax side we can be as moral as we like but a) we are effectively under attack from other countries who want to take our lunch and b) the 100,000's of jobs that rely on multinationals is probably a price worth paying.
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » This is the rubbish we do hear from the left. It's just not true. People want to believe it in their own heads to confirm their own prejudices against anyone with more money than them. In layman's terms - begrudgery. The ire for property developers is the best example. On the one hand people want them punished (for what no one knows) and on the other there are not enough houses because we need developers to build them. Go figure.
dasdog wrote: » whoring a countries position to facilitate tax avoidance and property speculation.
dasdog wrote: » Reason for the post is a friends rent in a SCD apt block sold off from NAMA to Canadian investors has gone up by 60%. She's a mad German getting on in age, works really hard and I joked yesterday with her about who would make the better caravan dweller. My rant is based on the tactics being continued in the most unrepublic of republics and the civil service rooted in a 19th century British military structure of officers/corporals, whoring a countries position to facilitate tax avoidance and property speculation. I'm the most devout of capitalists (no free healthcare type) but I will be looking to the extreme left when voting next comes around. Sorry about the rant, fvking got to me today.
Breffnigolfer wrote: » Cool story, indeed, and nothing to do with either Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael.