Almost half of businesses in Dublin rate the capital’s housing infrastructure as inadequate, a study has found. Businesses said that housing was important in attracting staff and improving their quality of life. Loretta O’Sullivan, the bank’s chief economist, said that businesses expected house prices and rents to keep rising as demand continued to outstrip supply. “This month’s data shows that many firms consider the housing infrastructure in their region to be inadequate,” she said. “Firms in Dublin, the rest of Leinster and Munster, also citied it…

Source: The Times September 24, 2017 23:03 UTC