The house had the dubious honour of being known as Ireland’s skinniest home, measuring just 180cm wide. It carried an asking price was €265,000 and was – by every measure – small. Very, very small.
Mulqueen’s high profile on social media also saw interest from publishers and led to his new book which carries the fairly self-explanatory title How to Buy a Home in Ireland. The book, he says, was almost a collaborative effort between him and his army of home-seekers. Eventually, Mulqueen decided to try a different approach. “We bid and we looked at so many houses,” he says. “As a person, I generally try to problem-solve so I asked myself what’s the problem here? The problem was the bidding wars. We could not afford them so how could we get around that? Get rid of the other bidders? How do we get rid of the other bidders? By trying to buy a house that not that many people know about. And then the only way to do that is to go direct to people.
So, suddenly, the Instagram page that was about crazy house prices and the trials and tribulations of buying a home in Ireland was also about renovations and retrofitting and his follower base grew further. “I think every generation thinks they’re more hard done by than the previous one, that’s a common theme. But the research and the facts do back the argument that for this generation, it is more difficult to buy a home than it has ever been and it’s not just supply, it’s prices.”
Not even about Millennials anymore. Oldest Gen Z are finishing college, millennials are the middle generation.
Ill accept that when I come across a millennial who wants a house and is prepared to live a very frugal lifestyle to do so.Any of the ones I’ve come across drive flash cars, live on take-outs and garage coffee, and take umpteen holidays/ weekend breaks. Can’t have cake & eat it!
Ah sure didn't silver spoon Redmond tell us we're in a great place.
You can thank the clowns who continue to blindly vote for the FiannafailGael party, this problem is down to corrupt politicians who simply don't care about the population
Call me crazy, but maybe all the hundreds of thousands of (legal & illegal) immigrants moving here to live might be causing this problem ... Crazy Open Borders. irelandisfull EvictionBan
So he got a 2nd job for himself as a writer and blogger which enabled his family to buy a house?👍
This man is a national treasure and gives hope that with more people thinking like him that our kids might not have to emigrate away. Gvmt has brutally failed our youth, and we will all suffer the worst for it in time (no essential workers, not enough to pay into pension pot etc)
crazyhouseprice I sense another Scheme coming.
April fools already
The government invited the vulture scum in here to buy up property 😡
You will own nothing and be happy
Asylum Seekers are handed 'free' houses.
One thing I must say is ,your getting a better quality insulated triple-glazed home today. which will keep you warm at a low cost. The 60 70 even 80s homes were like biscuits dependent on coal as a backup.
Government policy has been to do nothing about the housing crisis while cranking the immigration tap up to torrential level. Disaster
And cross your fingers that you don't lose your job
In the 80s interest rates were 18% and more so in real terms things were bad.
Government is the problem, everything they do in the property market has bad, unintended consequences. Also years of near zero interest rates and mass immigration all push up prices.
The most viable option is emigration.
People still won't care. This has been going on for 10 years.