2% max rental increase allowed inflation 7% plus

Is that not the definition of a business venture?

I hear this a lot, is there any statistical proof to back it up. I can see that the rental market is a crazy one at the moment but what is driving that? Is it really landlords departing the market?

What do you think will happen if the government are pushing all the private ll out of the market??

If you have 100 properties to rent and 100 people looking to rent today and in 5 years, you have 70 properties to rent and 100people, what do you think will happen to the prices. if you think prices will remain the same, dont bother even replying..

In the real world, if you actually knew how it worked, you would know that the yields on property are decreasing given the very expensive capital costs incurred - Its an investment and if you can get the same yield elsewhere with less risk and work, why invest in property in ireland?

For the most part, it is not profitable until the debt is paid off. Until then, if your lucky, you might be break even in cashflow while you will have a fully unencumbered property in 30 years. if you think its acceptable to use your own PAYE and take on substantial risk for 30 years. then you clearly dont understand investing.

Taxation in Ireland takes 52pc of any profit that is incurred so if your paying 20k in rent to your "grubby" landlord, over 10k goes to the tax mans.

Please familiarise yourself with how the real world operates before spewing absolute emotive statements and explain how LL are extorting outrageous profits

Did a landlord run over your dog or something?

Ignoring your utterly sociopathic opening line...

Some people are landlords because they are stuck in negative equity and are renting out their home through no choice of their own, they need the income to cover the mortgage.

Some people are landlords because they have a mortgage on a buy to let property which might be feeding into their primary residence.

Some people are landlords purely as a business.

It's not just a load of fat cats sitting in a room, wearing monocle and smoking cigars, there are endless reasons people are landlords.

I think rent increases tied to the ecb rate, like with mortgage rates, is how it should be done.

Maybe the landlord's dog ran over him?

With small landlords being driven out of the market, the vast majority stakeholders (i.e. tenants, individual (not corporate) landlords, agents, cleaning companies, banks etc.) are suffering as a result. The proles fighting among themselves (i.e. tenants and small landlords) is exactly what the big guys want to see. But they need to take a step back and realise that the market isn't working for them, but instead it is working for some small stakeholders and they are the ones who should be attacked. And for clarity, the REITs are not the problem here but the other institutional investors are (e.g. Kennedy Wilson, Greystar, Round Hill etc.). REITs require cash so can't afford to hold places empty whereas the other institutionals are happy to leave brand new places empty for years (e.g. Capital Dock).

There's less than 500 ads for rentals in Dublin city today on Daft and I see a jobs announcement of 1,000 at a new campus of Workday in Grangegorman. Quite simply, for me, these jobs won't see the light of day with the state of our housing market and that is where very quickly the economy will unwind; a few companies going remote for the long term did not seem to give the government a wake up call so it is going to take several employers now cancelling plans to hire in Ireland before the government take the housing crisis seriously (at which point it will be too late as the jobs will already be lost).

Sorry, but that makes little sense: for the past several years the ECB rate was practically zero or negative. What does that say about how rents should change from year to year?

So this person did not make their profit as a landlord, maybe they bought it as a speculative investment, if it was an auction, they either had cash or access to a lot of credit. they made 25% in about 3 years, so, how much would they have made in the stock market?

What is your point exactly?

Why is it ok for every other investment or business to make money, but if a landlord does it, they are greedy?

If they sell the property at a loss, should the general public help them out?

I’m an ‘accidental landlord’. We needed to move out of our tiny apartment because we had kids and there was not enough space for us all. We literally couldn’t have afforded to pay back the mortgage if we sold it. What other choice did we have? Default? Borrow from friends and family? Raise our family in unsuitable accommodation? There were no good options.

We’ve been lucky in the long run and I wouldn’t ever claim otherwise but there were times we went into debt to maintain that apartment. Saying that we ‘chose to become landlords’ ignores the context those decisions were made in.

Every business purchases machinery, equipment with debt. That's exactly how a business operates.

A landlord is a business person pure and simple. Why is a landlord any different to a shopkeeper, a publican, a petrol station or any other business?

Why do tenants need to be molly coddled to make their lives easier?

Landlords use electricity, oil, petrol, they eat food. They are all going up.