Culture around renting

Try both renting and living without a car, to see how people can perceive you as really weird!

I smell re-reg.

The problem is renting is more expensive than buying a house, there's no long term security, the landlord could put the rent up in a year or 2, you might get asked to move out.most of gen z is looking at the prospect of never being able to buy property, its a choice of live at home or pay expensive rent. We are in the era of inflation, Ireland is becoming an expensive country to live in. We already have regulation of rental property's, there's loads of regulations, I think maybe you mean rent control. I don't know what changes they can make, the main problem is lack of housing, we need 20k plus units built per year,

The government simply cannot do this, due to rising costs lack of resources, supply chain problems. If you vote for sinn féin or fine Gael it does not make much difference

If there's excessive regulations landlords can simply sell up and leave the market what can we do Re social housing that we don't already do , I think the main problem is not bad policy's or lack of regulation

I think new company's will stop coming here due to the awful state of the rental market

Almost nothing, except invest a lot of their own/borrowed money into a property that you could wreck/stop paying rent in. If it is just about “extortionate” rates/profits, you have to wonder why so many LLs are leaving, and so few are investing.

It never ceases to amaze me why some think they have some entitlement to live in a high price locality, just because they were born there.

Most people don’t hate renters op, they hate eejits with a sense of entitlement, the genesis of the rental problem lies in the lack of supply and poorly thought out legislation/regulations which discourage investment.

The big companies who are already here, Google, Facebook etc are buying up newly built apartments to house their new hires. That's how bad the lack of supply has become.

In fairness you started it whining about landlords and their extortionate rates.

If a LL sets any rent they like. Say 4x times the nearest rent for the same property. Will they get a tenant. No. So its not the LL setting the rent. Its the market. The Landlord doesn't build housing, they are not dictating supply, they don't dictate the market.

Rents are nuts. But LLs don't control them. If they set them too low they (under the current rules) are penalized for it.

There is your answer op.

The ignorance of the above post is staggering. A huge number of investors lost their investment and more in the last recession, there is no guarantee that the value of the property will go up, nor that the tenant will not be errant. So the LL has a hell of a lot more to lose than the tenant.