‘Secrecy jurisdiction’ and tax haven companies to build 8,400 homes here

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Foreign-based property firms controlled by mystery shareholders plan to construct large apartment blocks for the rental sector.

Companies in “secrecy jurisdictions” and tax havens, where shareholders’ identities are concealed, have lodged plans to build more than 8,000 homes in Ireland during 2022 alone, an investigation by the Business Post has found.

The property firms, controlled by mystery shareholders in Luxembourg, the Isle of Man, Guernsey and the British Virgin Islands, were behind more than a fifth of large-scale housing applications submitted to An Bord Pleanála since January.

 

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