Why You Can’t Buy a House & What The Housing Crisis In Ireland Is Really About - Ray Cooke

He Built One of Ireland's Best-Known Estate Agencies,
Lost Almost Everything in the Crash, and Came Back. Ray Cooke on
Housing, Money & Sacrifice.


Whether you're trying to buy your first home, stuck renting,
investing, or you're just convinced the whole system is broken,
you have an opinion on the housing market. Ray Cooke has watched
it all from the inside. He built one of Ireland's most
recognisable estate agency brands, survived the 2008 crash when
he couldn't afford to feed himself, and has seen firsthand how
policy, interest rates and supply shape thousands of lives.


Ryan sits down with Ray for an honest, no-spin conversation that
goes well beyond house prices.


What we get into:


Growing up in Rathcoole, dyslexia, and why hard work became
his "superpower"

Working in the pub at 11 and the money habit that shaped
everything

Setting up his business in 2005, then watching the 2008 crash
nearly destroy it

Viewing one house 82 times before it sold, and living on
beans on toast

The bank manager who ripped up his business plan three times
and saved him

Why 2008 won't happen again, and how lending has completely
changed

The truth about estate agents, ghost bidding and why they get
so much abuse

Whether the housing crisis is really the agents' fault, or
the government's

His honest, blunt take on sacrifice, saving and getting on
the ladder

What he'd change first if he woke up as housing minister

How to build wealth starting with 20 grand

The biggest money mistake ordinary people make without
realising



Ryan Curtis is a former Irish MMA fighter who was paralysed from
the neck down and told he would never walk again. Made in Chaos
exists to platform guests who've turned adversity into
hard-earned wisdom worth sharing.


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