Irish Residential Properties REIT has appointed Eddie Byrne as Chief Executive Officer, with effect from 8 April 2024.
Byrne will succeed Margaret Sweeney who is retiring on her own request after having served as CEO for the past six and a half years.
Eddie Byrne has over 20 years’ experience at executive level in the real estate sector. Most recently, he was joint managing partner at Quintain Developments Ireland, one of Ireland’s largest residential real estate developers, where he co-established the Irish operation that achieved over 5,000 planning permissions.
He was previously managing director at Hudson Advisors Ireland, where he oversaw several billion euro of acquisitions and disposals of real estate assets in Ireland. He was also Chief Portfolio Officer at Netherlands based Propertize where he had responsibility for a large property portfolio across the Benelux countries and before that, worked in real estate, banking, and capital markets in North America.
