An intelligence report on any Irish site.
We merge Ireland's public registers — ownership, planning, land, build, sale — into one sourced picture of your site.

For decisions on Irish development that cannot afford to be wrong.

Signal

What an intelligence report surfaces.

Four findings from the ongoing Viability investigation — the same kind of signal a commissioned intelligence report runs against your specific site. Each one is a join between registers that, independently, never speak to each other.

218
Extension applications above the Covid peak

Irish developers filed 218 residential extension of duration applications in Q1 2026 — above the Q1 2021 Covid peak, when construction sites were physically closed. 75% of stalled sites face infrastructure or ground-condition cost burdens. Fewer than 3% sit in a flood zone. Planning is not what is stopping these homes.

Part 1 · The Viability Ceiling
1-in-20
Developers file an extension. The rest walk away

An extension requires proof of substantial works. Sites that never broke ground often cannot qualify. At most one in twenty developers with expiring permissions files one — the rest let the permission lapse silently. The planning system's output is expiring faster than it is being replaced.

Part 2 · The Silent Lapse
85%
Of recycled RZLT sites change hands

One-site developers sell under pressure. Institutional buyers acquire at discount. A tax designed to unlock land for housing is transferring it from developers who cannot build to buyers who can afford not to — and across 889 planning documents on RZLT-liable land, the tax is mentioned zero times.

Part 3 · The RZLT Paradox
170,000
Permitted homes caught by six mid-flight rule changes

NZEB, Part V doubling, SHD abolition, the Defective Blocks Act, Section 42B expiry, and RZLT — six policy changes took effect between grant and build. A developer who priced a scheme in 2019 budgeted for none of the ones that now apply. 22,769 residential permissions granted 2019-2021 sit in that window.

Part 4 · Rules Changed
Under every report

The themes we merge.

Every intelligence report is drawn from the same unified view of Irish land. Seven themes, joined at the planning application reference.

Planning application · the key
01
+ Ownership & capital
Who really holds permissions — the holding companies, SPVs, and dissolved entities behind the applicant name — and the corporate chain above them.
02
+ Planning history & appeals
Every decision, condition, refusal ground, and overturn across councils and years — the precedents that decide how similar schemes are ruled.
03
+ Land & zoning
The developable envelope under current policy. Plan precedence, zoning objective, and which sites sit on RZLT-liable land.
04
+ Build & commencement
Which grants became actual homes — and where the non-commencement gap sits. Matching permission to build to completion record.
05
+ Sale & transaction
What gets built versus what gets sold. Completion without a matching sale flags state acquisition, bulk purchase, or retained stock.
06
+ State procurement & social housing
Which schemes are state-destined before construction starts, and when the turnkey crossover reshaped the market.
07
+ Site constraint & environment
Site-level constraint before capital is committed — ground risk, flood exposure, heritage and archaeological adjacency, water and infrastructure status.
Dispatch

From the ongoing investigation.

The full series

Every report runs against

31
Councils
2M
Applications
17M
Documents read
Commission

An intelligence report on your site.

Commissioned, authored, and reviewed — every claim sourced to the document it came from. A single report covers the development envelope, every prior permission on or adjacent, refusal patterns by ground, ownership and SPV chain, infrastructure status, comparable sales, ABP trajectory, and the open questions that will decide the outcome.

Turnaround in days. Scope and pricing confirmed before any work begins.

Scope

Where the graph ends, and where it doesn't.