{"id":242406,"date":"2025-12-20T07:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242406\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:44:20","slug":"bpfi-says-houses-are-taking-longer-to-build-amid-construction-skill-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242406\/","title":{"rendered":"BPFI says houses are taking longer to build amid construction skill shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Banking and Payments Federation Ireland found that only one in 10 housing units started last year were completed within 12 months\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Almost 33,000 new homes were completed in the 12 months ending September. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/052884b0-cb8d-4d12-ab84-9aea1e16c48c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Almost 33,000 new homes were completed in the 12 months ending September. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is taking longer to complete housing projects, with a shortage of skilled construction workers contributing to the difficulties meeting the huge demand for homes, the banks have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Construction on around 11,600 housing units started in the first 10 months of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banking and Payments Federation Ireland found that only one in 10 housing units started last year were completed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,2107,18,3847,19,17,4770,2108],"class_list":{"0":"post-242406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-charlie-weston","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-james-browne","15":"tag-money-experts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115750781927161989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}