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The Land and Property Services (LPS, Irish: Seirbhísí Talún & Maoine) is an agency of the Department of Finance of the Northern Ireland Executive. The agency, created in 2008, includes the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (the OSNI).
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is the public housing authority for Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's largest social housing landlord, and the enforcing authority for those parts of housing orders that involve houses with multiple occupants, houses that are unfit, and housing conditions. [1] [2] The NIHE employed 2,865 persons ...
Domestic rates are the local government taxation in Northern Ireland. Rates are a tax on property based on the capital value of the residential property on 1 January 2005. Domestic rates consist of two components, a regional rate set by the Northern Ireland Assembly and a district rate set by local councils. Rate levels are set annually.
Reflecting its unionist tradition, the paper has historically been "favoured by the Protestant population", [3] while also being read within Catholic nationalist communities in Northern Ireland. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It has been owned by Independent News and Media , a Dublin-based media company, since 2000, [ 7 ] and is the company's only print ...
In June 2005, The Economist news magazine suggested that a large bubble existed in the Irish market. [47] In September 2005, the OECD and unnamed senior officials of the Central Bank of Ireland agreed that Irish property was overvalued by 15%; this was only released to the public by The Irish Times shortly afterwards. [48]
Malone Park is a private avenue in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It forms a conservation area. [1] The majority of the houses are Victorian and have large grounds surrounding them. There is a gate lodge at each end of the avenue. The Lisburn Road end is inaccessible to vehicular traffic as is the Balmoral Avenue gate.
Market houses are a notable feature of several Northern Ireland towns. While these market houses vary in styles of architecture, size and ornamentation, many were designed with three, four or even five bays on the ground floor which were an open arcade. An upper floor was often used as a court house or ballroom.
The Irish News is the only independently owned daily newspaper based in Northern Ireland, and has been so since its launch on 15 August 1891 as an anti-Parnell newspaper by Patrick MacAlister. [4] It merged with the Belfast Morning News in August 1892, and the full title of the paper has since been The Irish News and Belfast Morning News.