Over the weekend news broke of an housing estate in Maynooth, where only 22 out of 174 new homes were available for first-time buyers, with the remainder being bulk purchased by an investment trust. Ciarán Mulqueen, is a teacher and creator of the Instagram account Crazy House Prices, Rory Hearne is Lecturer in Social Policy, Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University and Matt Finucane chatted to Andrea about the issue. 

Read more here: 'Normal people can't compete' with investment funds when buying a house in Ireland

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