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 everythingSetting up his business in 2005, then watching the 2008 crash nearly destroy itViewing one house 82 times before it sold, and living on beans on toastThe bank manager who ripped up his business plan three times and saved himWhy 2008 won't happen again, and how lending has completely changedThe truth about estate agents, ghost bidding and why they get so much abuseWhether the housing crisis is really the agents' fault, or the government'sHis honest, blunt take on sacrifice, saving and getting on the ladderWhat he'd change first if he woke up as housing ministerHow to build wealth starting with 20 grandThe biggest money mistake ordinary people make without realisingRyan 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.Follow: @madeinchaospod | @chaoscurtis🖊️ Sponsored by The Ink Factory, Temple Bar — Ireland's highest rated tattoo studio. theinkfactory.ie | @theinkfactory