Real Estate
In Dublin, It’s Elon Musk Versus the Housing Market
House prices in the Irish capital, where Twitter has its European headquarters, recently topped the peak they reached in 2007.
European headquarters of Twitter in Dublin.
Photographer: Niall Carson/PA Images
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At Twitter’s European headquarters, surviving employees have one big problem with Elon Musk’s demand that everyone must return to the office: finding somewhere to live.
Dublin, the Irish capital where the tech firm has an office that had about 500 employees, is in the midst of a housing crisis driven by chronic undersupply of new homes and a mass exodus of private landlords. Prices recently topped the peak they reached in 2007, shortly before an economic crash that almost bankrupted the nation.