3rd November 2025
Government’s Housing Plan Will Dictate Property Valuations Into The Future – IPAV
The political decisions the Government is going to make in its imminent new housing plan will impact property valuations, residential and commercial, for years to come, IPAV, the Institute of Professional Auctioneers & Valuers, said today.
Speaking ahead of the organisation’s European Valuation conference to be held at the RDS, Dublin tomorrow (Tuesday 4th November), Genevieve McGuirk IPAV’s Chief Executive said: “The hope of all reasonable people would be that the plan will be strong enough to stimulate supply.
“This can only be achieved by encouraging investment, speeding up planning and infrastructure, and co-ordinating the disparate and disjointed elements of housing policy.
“We cannot afford to see price increases for homes continue at the level they’ve been at in recent years,” she said.
Ms McGuirk, a former head of education at IPAV, said Tuesday’s valuation conference is an important annual event since the science of property valuations is a critical element of a properly functioning economy and society, with much to be learned from the financial crash in advance of which property valuations were not taken seriously enough by lenders.
“In this regard we’re delighted to have James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science address Tuesday’s conference,” she said.
Among the speakers also will be: Kate English, Chief Economist at Deloitte; Paulo Barros, Chairman of TEGOVA, a pan-European association of professional bodies working for standards, ethics and quality in the real estate valuation market and experts on the green transition and tech.