Perspectives on the Dublin market. Current market problems are a temporary setback and this makes it an opportune time to buy, says Mark FitzGerald in the Irish Times.

Future Shock:Property Crash which was shown on RTE the other night offers an extremely pessimistic view of the Irish Property Market and is presented in a laughable way with doom laden music, and at certain points, film like visuals which seem to have been inspired by Hitchcock or David Lynch. Also features sinister voices.

Prime Time has some discussion on the what's possibly going to happen to the property market here. Professor Morgan Kelly of UCD and Jim Power of Friends First offer differing views. You will need Real Player to watch the videos on RTE. It's a pity RTE don't offer the ability to embed videos in your blog yet. Though it is great they are putting more video content up the web now and the new site is a great improvement.

The impression we get here, is that some people almost seem to be willing a property crash on. Others obviously want to talk it up positively as it is in their interest. Somewhere in the middle there is reality, which seems to indicate a cooling market/soft landing in progress without all the drama.