This year’s IHBA’s 2025 House Building Summit at Croke Park on Tuesday 8 April will explore the key factors in housing development, address the challenges and offer insights and solutions to advance best practices.

Over the next two decades billions of euros will be invested in housing and infrastructure. Underpinning this investment is the soon-to-be-published revised National Planning Framework. The new government plans to deliver 300,000 new homes by 2030.

However, with only 30,000 homes built last year, a reduction on figures for 2023, the IHBA Summit will explore the prospects of delivering annual housing targets of almost double this amount, with building this housing amid infrastructure, cost, labour and planning pressures being the key challenges facing Irish homebuilders.

Topics will include

* The new government’s housing policy

* Putting infrastructure at the heart of our new housing policy

* Delivering new homes: Is the tide finally turning?

* The National Planning Framework (NPF), local authority plans and rezoning: How to harness public lands for housing development

* Apartment viability: Understanding building costs, improving viability and affordability

* Why the lack of scale in homebuilding remains a major issue

* Funding: What will it take to unlock equity finance for smaller construction businesses?

* Open forum with industry leaders: Submit housing questions to the panel of construction industry leaders

Now in its sixth year, the IHBA’s 2025 House Building Summit will be of particular interest to homebuilders, developers, local authorities, housing associations, key partners and suppliers. Where innovation and pragmatic solutions meet, the summit will offer collaboration, best practice learning and the conversations needed to achieve as an industry.  So, mark the date to keep abreast of industry trends, engage with the panel of speakers, network with fellow industry professionals to discuss the challenges ahead.