Procurement Summary
Country: Ireland
Summary: Research on the Financing of Residential Development
Deadline: 17 Jul 2026
Posting Date: 13 Jun 2026
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 143249978
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Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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79300000 - Market and economic research; polling and statistics
79311400 - Economic research services
73210000 - Research consultancy services
73110000 - Research services
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The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is procuring, from a single tenderer, a research paper intended to widen the Department-s understanding of the financing of residential development in Ireland through the development cycle, from project inception to sale, focusing on generating a detailed description of the financial flows, encompassing project level finance and how those flows relate to the parent company-s corporate balance sheet, including land assets. The Department-s goal is to understand, over the lifespan of a set of representative private, profit-oriented, residential construction projects, the sources, flows, timings and costs of the various forms of development financing, including financing during the pre-construction period, that is, of the purchase and holding of land and design/consent phases, in addition to the financing of the construction and development-exit (sales period) phases of a residential project. As such, the output will be organised with reference to a small number of case studies that demonstrate the financial flows. Aspects of interest include: - Different project typologies, for instance high density brownfield vs peripheral greenfield housing, and how those project typologies influence the timing and costs of financing; - The opportunity cost of developer-s equity; - The extent to which loans and funding are collateralised, and the nature and value of the assets used as collateral; - Land acquisition finance, including how typical land loan values are calculated, the broader terms of such loans and the degree to which the cost of finance can change depending on whether a site has planning permission or not; - How project risk is assessed and quantified from the perspective of lenders, including market conditions, construction risks, the developer's track record, housing typologies, and the role of developers in providing potential providers of finance with feasibility studies to mitigate risks and provide a comp...
Procedure : Open
Publication Date : 17/07/2026
Deadline : 17/07/2026 23:30:00
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