The president of the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute has repeated the body's call for a National Property Price Register.
Speaking at the IAVI's annual conference, Aine Myler said we all needed a real-time and accurate register of property prices to be published.
She said the IAVI was encouraged by the proposal's inclusion in the recent Programme for Government, but now there did not seem to be any Government motivation to set it up.
Ms Myler also called on the Government to enact the Property Services (Regulation) Bill, which will enable a Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA) to regulate the industry.
She queried the Government's priorities and asked how 'at a time when great criticism exists around the failure of light-touch regulation, the Government justifies the existence of no regulation in this important professional and consumer area'.
Ms Myler described her view of the property industry as 'cautiously optimistic', though she added that no-one would try to call the bottom of the market. She said there were signs of some stabilisation at 'affordable' levels, mainly in Dublin.
