I am an internationally recognised expert on housing markets and housing price indices. Since 2004, I have been the author of the Daft.ie Reports, the longest-running sale and rental prices in Ireland. Since 2017, I have worked, on behalf of the IMF, training policymakers in South America, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia on how to measure housing price trends. I have also worked with numerous individual countries — including Bolivia, Iraq, Jordan, Mongolia, Nepal, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam — building local expert capacity.

I am an active contributor to policy debates, especially on the topic of housing, and my research and commentary feature regularly in the media, both nationally and internationally. Nationally, I am a columnist at TheCurrency, having previously written for the Sunday Business Post and the Sunday Independent. Internationally, I am regularly interviewed on the Irish ecnomy — past examples include the BBC, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, YLE (Finland), the Christian Science Monitor, the Financial Times, Sky News, the New York Times and The Economist.

I have written a number of book chapters, including for the Economy of Ireland textbook, and in 2011, I was editor, with Ed Burke, of Next Generation Ireland. Together with my co-authors, Rowena Gray and Jason Barr, I am writing Rent & The City, a history of the (un)affordability of housing in New York over the last centuries. Commissioned by Columbia University Press, it is due out in late 2025.

From 2021 to 2024, I was a member of Ireland’s Housing Commission, and for the period 2017-2022, I was a Board Member of Ireland’s Higher Education Authority. I have been a Council Member of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland (SSISI) since 2017 and was Honorary Secretary for 2018-2021. From 2016 to 2022, I was on the Organising Committee of the Dublin Economic Workshop.