{"id":615625,"date":"2026-09-05T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615625\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:42:09","slug":"matt-cooper-irelands-e945bn-property-boom-has-created-a-new-problem-for-the-squeezed-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615625\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Cooper: Ireland\u2019s \u20ac945bn property boom has created a new problem for the squeezed middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Post subscribers can read:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Why Ireland\u2019s \u20ac944.6 billion housing wealth could be vulnerable if the ESRI\u2019s estimate of overvaluation proves correct<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How the housing affordability crisis is hitting middle-income households hardest while existing owners benefit from rising property values<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Why the \u201cbank of mom and dad\u201d is connecting soaring house prices with the growing political debate over inheritance and gift tax<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business Post subscribers can read: \u2022 Why Ireland\u2019s \u20ac944.6 billion housing wealth could be vulnerable if the ESRI\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-615625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}