{"id":5522,"date":"2026-02-18T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:18:44","slug":"we-must-stop-vulture-funds-from-preying-on-family-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/we-must-stop-vulture-funds-from-preying-on-family-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"We must stop vulture funds from preying on family homes"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has accused the government parties of prioritising the interests of developers, landlords and investment funds at the expense of struggling workers and families.<br \/><br \/>Calling for a ban on investment funds buying family homes in the D\u00e1il last night, Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cWhen big funds enter residential markets with deep pockets and all the tax advantages Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael magicians can conjure up, working families are effectively shut out of their own housing market. <br \/><br \/>\u201cWorkers, young couples, nurses, teachers, doctors, garda\u00ed, construction workers and so many more simply cannot compete financially with institutional buyers, which can outbid any offer and absorb homes that should be available first to Irish families.<br \/><br \/>\u201cFor years, Sinn F\u00e9in has warned that allowing vulture funds and investment vehicles to swoop in and hoover up homes makes the housing crisis worse, not better. These funds see these properties not as homes but as profit-making assets, nothing more than entries in a spreadsheet, while children grow up in family hubs or a relative\u2019s box room. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThe vulture funds can outbid ordinary buyers and then extract obscene rental income, pushing up average rents because their focus is on profit, not community or stability. We have already seen historic numbers of homes snapped up. In some estates, 85% of them have been sold to investment funds, leaving those who have scrimped and saved for home ownership fighting against each other for whatever is left.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe Government\u2019s small stamp duty increase does nothing to stop this corrosive practice. It has tinkered at the edges while this practice continues. Why do we allow entities with effectively unlimited means to outbid families for homes? Who does this benefit? Not ordinary workers or families. <br \/><br \/>\u201cHomes are not commodities; they are the foundation blocks of family life and community. Fine Gael, Fianna F\u00e1il and the Government Independents must stop prioritising the interests of developers, landlords and investment funds at the expense of struggling workers and families. The Government must ban investment funds from buying family homes.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has accused the government parties of prioritising the interests of developers, landlords and investment funds at the expense of struggling workers and families. Calling for a ban on investment funds buying family homes in the D\u00e1il last night, Teachta Crowe said: \u201cWhen big funds enter residential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5523,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions\/5523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}