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Irish REITs Ready to go - Click for .pdf
EPRA News, March 2013

REIT legislation could be start of new era in Irish property- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times,February 6th 2013 - Click here for html version

REITs_will attract_international investment- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, January 16th 2013 - Click here for html version

Navigating the strong currents in the Irish property industry- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, December 12th 2012 - Click here for html version

Six easy steps to fix the property market- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, October 24th 2012 - Click here for html version

Government's role in the Property Market,
13th National Construction Conference 2012
The Irish Property Market 2013-2020
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Bill Nowlan, October 24th 2012 - Click here for html version

Investors face refurbishment headache - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, September 5th 2012 - Click here for html version

No magic bullet for banks' property crisis - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, May 16th 2012 - Click here for html version

New database a 'game changer' for the industry - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, April 11th 2012 - Click here for html version

Market makes the second big switch in a decade - Click for .pdf
Frank O'Neill, Irish Times, March 14th 2012 - Click here for html version

Can Nama add value to its property loans? - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, February 22nd 2012 - Click here for html version

Lessons learned in the property crash - Click for .pdf
Eoin McDermott, Irish Times, February 8th 2012 - Click here for html version

Recovery is just around the corner - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, December 7th 2011 - Click here for html version

Reits could revive the Irish investment market - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, November 30th 2011 - Click here for html version

All Property markets are local
Open letter to Michael Noonan TD, Minister for Finance
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Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, November 2nd 2011 - Click here for html version

Presentation made by Bill Nowlan to Chartered Accountants Conference
4th October 2011. - Click for .pdf

Bill Nowlan is Chairman of the REITs Forum
which is seeking to create a REITs industry in Ireland.

Nama must refuse to sell below given value range - Click for .pdf
Irish Times, September 28th 2011 - Click here for html version

Property Week Article:
Landlords fight back in Irish rent review battle
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June 14th 2011 - Click here for html version

Irish Times Letters - Click for .pdf
June 14th 2011 - Click here for html version

Few Wexford Retailers refused rent cut- Click for .pdf
Irish Times, June 8th 2011 - Click here for html version

Will Planning Act's 'core strategy, work?- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, May 18th 2011 - Click here for html version

Property experts can help to rebuild the economy - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, April 13th 2011 - Click here for html version

Rent reviews: go back to Law Reform body- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, March 30th 2011 - Click here for html version

Banning upward-only rent reviews - Click for .pdf
Letters Page, Irish Times, March 1st 2011 - Click here for html version

Landlords and tenants must live happily together - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, February 23rd 2011 - Click here for html version

Pushing landlords will cost us all - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, February 16th 2011 - Click here for html version

The only game in town scarred the land and hurt the taxpayer,
but not all developers were the same - Click for .pdf

Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, January 16th 2010 - Click here for html version

Crash accident investigators required
to get to the bottom of the Irish property meltdown - Click for .pdf

Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, December 19th 2010 - Click here for html version

Nama, the IMF key to recovery- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, December 8th 2010 - Click here for html version

Irelands Property Management - Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, NCB - Wealth Management, November 2010

Why we should’nt be scared of ‘Ghost Estates’- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, November 18th 2010 - Click here for html version

The new housing agency could provide the missing
planning link between land use and land supply - Click for .pdf

Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, November 14th 2010 - Click here for html version

The Government needs to do the REIT thing
to get the property investment market moving again - Click for .pdf

Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, October 10th 2010 - Click here for html version

When will building resume?- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, October 6th 2010 - Click here for html version

Stop blaming planners for the mistakes of their political masters- Click for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, September 12th 2010 - Click here for html version

When will market go back to normal - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, September 8th 2010 - Click here for html version

At long last we've swapped Norman rule for normal rule- Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, August 15th 2010

New Bill sets up a smarter planning framework for all- Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, June 25th 2010

It's easy to find the price of everything except property - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, June 20th 2010 - Click here for html version

Timing is everything in property investment - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, June 6th 2010 - Click here for html version

Land bonds could solve the problem of ghost estates - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, May 2010 - Click here for html version

Docklands planning model produced the goods - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, April 28th 2010 - Click here for html version

Ghost Estates - The Developer's Perspective
THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS
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Paper by W.K. Nowlan to the Irish Planning Institute's Annual Conference,
Tullamore, April 2010

Rent review process helps to find middle ground - Click here for .pdf
Eoin McDermott, Director of Valuations at WKN & Associates,
Sunday Business Post, April 2010 - Click here for html version

Straight Talking - Planning must be for people, not developers
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, April 2010

Seeds of the next property cycle are germinating - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, March 2010 - Click here for html version

Straight talking - In commercial property, tomato rules apply - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune February 2010 - Click here for html version

NAMA - a Work-out Vehicle, not a Liquidation Vehicle - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Construction and Property News January 2010- Click here for html version

Commercial property has not hit a plateau yet- Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune 17th January 2010 - Click here for html version

2010 will be the year of NAMA - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday 2nd December 2009 - Click here for html version

80% Windfall tax is a disaster - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday 25th November 2009 - Click here for html version

Nama - your new bank manager - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday 11th November 2009 - Click here for html version

We need to design a workable land tax - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, Sunday 8th November 2009 - Click herer for html version

The Property Crisis and the issues facing Charities
-Taking a strategic approach - Click here for .pdf
Paper delivered by Bill Nowlan at Charities Seminar held on Wednesday 23rd Sept. 2009

Nama will do the business - Click here for .pdf
Irish Times, Sept. 23, 2009 - Click here for html version

Evaluating Valuations - Click here for .pdf
Eoin McDermott, Director of Valuations at WKN & Associates
Irish Times, Sept. 1st, 2009 - Click here for html version

Upward only rent legislation 'a waste of time' - Click here for .pdf
Irish Times, July 8, 2009 - Click here for html version

Eyeing up the successful Swedish model - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, June 28, 2009 - Click here for html version

Interest roll-ups are a major threat to Nama - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, May 17, 2009 - Click here for html version

How exactly will NAMA manage its huge portfolio? - Click here for .pdf
Bill Nowlan, Sunday Tribune, May 10, 2009

Where are we now in the property cycle?
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday, May 6, 2009

We're near the bottom of the market

Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Land values go up like a rocket and fall like a stone
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Irish property - back to basics
Frank O'Neill, Finance, December 2008

Banks must get lending again
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Valuation of commercial property in turbulent times
Frank O'Neill, Finance, October 2008

Tighter lending to free up values for fall
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Credit crunch lets normality bite back
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Consultants chosen for redevelopmentof 73-acre Grangegorman site
Irish Times Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Irish commercial property market paralysed by the banks and vendors
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Mixed signals leave the market in a twist
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, November 28th, 2007

The driving principals behind investing in property vehicles
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, October 31st, 2007

Strong returns in 2005 likely to moderate in 2006
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, November 30th, 2005

Property experts with widely conflicting views
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, June 2nd, 2005

Yields to remain low for a very long time
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, June 1st, 2005

The commercial property market
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, May 25th, 2005

Its back to the norm after the big bonanza
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, December 1st, 2004

Should I invest in a property consortium
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, October 13th, 2004

Equilibrium in market so it's back to the norm
Bill Nowlan, Irish Times, December 3rd, 2003