Sick of this country

In fairness, though, income from most investments is taxed at the marginal rate not just rental income.

It would just be looking for the causes.

I think it's fair to say the biggest issues facing the country is the lack of rental housing supply.

Rents are in general to high for the younger people to build up savings for a down payment later on.

There are no real solutions to this problem ( and no voting for SF is not one of them....)

As above, I think enough tax-payers' money ends up in landlords' pockets when the real problem is lack of overall units built. To a certain extent it does not matter whether these are built to rent or built to purchase. Just concentrate on building more units, removing obstacles (planning delays, vexatious objections etc.) to building and attracting inward investment to do so.

You must be in the same club.

Just facts!

Are you living in Gaxa?

Tax an absolute killer especially if you were charging a fair rate.

yes land is indeed finite, solution, start building upwards, reducing urban sprawl....

public finances have been deliberately limited, in order to force us into more credit run economies, this credit is now primarily being used to (re)inflate the value of assets such as, and in particular, property, solution, start encouraging more public money creation methods such as public banks and by running deficits, thus becoming less reliant on global credit markets for our financial needs, which may reduce this hyper inflation in our property markets....

again, most advanced economies have in fact being following the above method of excess credit run economics, also called financialisation, which in fact its mains aims is to simply maximize financial gains, which, particularly since the 08, has in fact moved towards less physical building, and more speculation in these markets. in an irish context, we ve been actually experiencing a deficit in building requirements, on a perpetual basis, since the 08 crash, again noting, this deficit was in fact recognized since the crash, particularly in the dublin region, in which is now extremely chronically serious nation wide, i.e. we ve simply havent kept up with demand for about 15 years now, which means we re hundreds of thousands short of dwellings now, with no real solutions in how to catch up!

yes our public transport is also completely fcuked, billions required there to, on an annual basis, for decades, probably wont happen though!

what people are actually looking for, which in fact is a critical human need, and always has been, and since the cave man, is, 'security of accommodation', not necessarily home ownership, but since we ve completely fcuked up our property markets, neither rental or otherwise, are now fulling this need, so, go us!

..oh and if you think your pension fund is safe, you better think again, as property markets are amongst the most common markets where such funds are invested, so, be prepared!

For security of tenure to be guaranteed, there would need to be a mechanism where the renter is held accountable for the condition of the rental property, and a fast and effective means to remove the tenant should there be a breach of contract.

Housing references should be mandated, and a deposit or rent based on the amount of risk.

As it stands, the government is going the opposite way, "reduce homelessness at all costs" we have landlords leaving the market because they have no support or recourse against the few bad tenants.

I think it's a real chicken and egg situation, and it honestly stems from a poorly thought-out housing and immigration policy.

There would also need to be a way of guaranteeing decent housing into old age. That is what mortgaging and owning did. Most of us couldn’t pay commercial rent in our old age on pensions and fixed incomes.

On the whole I agree.

If you have a house, a decent job and you have your health then Ireland is just fantastic. There's nowhere I'd rather be.

However, I can see how people are struggling with rents or accessing necessary services.

I agree the govt are not supporting landlords and this leads to further exodus of landlords from the market.

But my main point is that it is up to the govt to create a security of tenure/safe environment for both landlords and tenants to exisit in a functioning and stable rental landscape.

Until that happens (I dont see it happening) an individual would be mad not to try and get on the property ladder.

Equally an individual would be mad to get into the rental market eg BTL