Housing Economics Research Publications

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has an active housing economics research programme, as the department wishes to understand housing market conditions and outcomes to inform the development of policy measures in a complex area of public policy. There are two major strands to the department’s research activities.

Firstly, the department publishes research papers which have been authored by departmental staff, including analysis of the housing aspirations of renters and the downsizing preferences of mature homeowners. These papers include work undertaken in collaboration with the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service.

Secondly, the department operates a joint housing economics research programme with the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). The output of the research programme has been a series of published papers concerning housing economics and related topics. The programme has also been widened to include research focused on spatial planning and related topics. Topics include housing market affordability, the sustainability of house prices, structural (i.e. demographic) housing demand, credit demand in the Irish mortgage market, implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Irish rental market, and rental inflation and price stabilisation policies.

• Intergenerational Dependence on Social Housing
• The housing aspirations and preferences of renters
• Attitudinal survey of mature homeowners

• Profiling short-term let usage across Ireland
• Exploring investment requirements for energy efficiency upgrades in the private rental sector
• Population projections, the flow of new households and structural housing demand
• Household size in Ireland: Stylised facts and cross country trends
• Residential land prices for the Irish property market: An initial examination
• Population Growth: Implications for Commuting
• Housing Affordability - Ireland in a Cross-Country Context
• Social housing in the Irish housing market
• Rental inflation and stabilisation policies: International evidence and the Irish experience
• Irish house price sustainability: a county-level analysis
• A county-level perspective on housing affordability in Ireland
• Irish house prices: Déjà vu all over again
• Exploring affordability in the Irish housing market
• Exploring the short-run implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on affordability in the Irish private rental market
• Credit demand in the Irish mortgage market: What is the gap and could public lending help
• Adding a construction sector to COSMO: Structure and policy analysis
• Regional demographics and structural housing demand at a county level

Should you have any queries concerning the department’s research programme or outputs, please contact Paul J Hogan at: PaulJ.Hogan@housing.gov.ie