Planning on building a pad out the back? As the government is set to relax planning rules to ease the housing crisis, contractors are now inundated with queries about modular homes. Ireland's biggest ...

Irish homeowners have long taken in lodgers to make ends meet. The publication of the 1926 census last month showed just how common it was to rent out a spare room to a stranger, from Dublin ...

Homeowners are in line to earn €14,000 tax-free by renting out newly-built modular units in their back gardens under new changes being examined by the Government. Legislation being introduced this ...

Housing Minister James Browne has told the Cabinet that regulations to permit modular homes in back gardens will also slash red tape for home extensions. The proposed exemptions include converting ...

The Government has defended its decision to exempt modular homes in back gardens from planning permission in the face of a barrage of Opposition criticism that it would allow renters be ripped off by ...