Landlords selling 2026

Do whatever is best for you and your family whether that’s selling, re-letting or keeping it for your own use - it’s your choice. There’s a lot of people who still think private landlords have some obligation to let their property forever, ignore them.

No question there is a shortage of rental property right now but private landlords didn’t cause the lack of supply and it’s not their responsibility to fix it. The state and many tenants seem to have a preference for corporate landlords who will offer long term tenancies with none of the problems associated with individual landlords, and maybe it will be better for tenants when all the small landlords have disappeared. If the individuals providing the properties are demonised and portrayed as evil gougers, it’s not surprising they’re leaving in droves.

Who knows - maybe corporate landlords will transform the rental market, after all, they’re definitely not in business to make a profit unlike that other shower who are leaving, bad cess to them 🙄🙄

It would seem now that existing landlords have been mislead yet again. Anyone who sold or is selling and not renting again was smart enough to realize that this was a trap. And it turns out it was a trap. Listening to the RTBs questions and answers yesterday, It turns out the RTB are changing the definition of market rent to be what they say it is and not what a property would achieve that is actually on the open market. They will have a database and give a landlord 10 current example rents that they can choose from when setting the rent to market rent. These will all be rent controlled rents, so are not market rents at all. That was the only thing in the new legislation for new landlords and it was a lie. I fail to see how anyone would be interested in being a landlord at this point and I fear that many who were waiting to decide whether to rent their property again, will now choose not to. And I dont see anyone other than owner occupiers buying those properties now. Could be a good time to buy though if you are an owner occupier. Bad if you are renting though.

Govt, Opposition clash over 'eye-watering' rent hikes

The Dáil debate was sparked by Ireland’s largest residential landlord, Ires Reit, saying that the changes - due to take effect this weekend - could see a 25% rise in its rental income over the next ten years.

I did some playing in excel, a 2% PA rise give a 21.9% rise over 10 years. If you have a 12.5% rise in the 6th year it goes up to 34%.

Personally, I think 2% pa is OK but if interest rates go up then it's not enough. There should be some middle ground, but I'm not sure how. Rebasing every 6 years is bad idea, it's acknowledging that the rent controls are unfair on LL's, so really, they should find a fairer system.

With a 12.5% increase in year six

How can market rents be controlled by the government other than with the 2% annual cap?

Is it that the govt maintain a market rate value for all properties in an area. This value would be based on new to market rental agreements only, since these are the only properties with an unrestricted value.

Following year 6, is the landlord able to set the rent to whatever value they like or will the government still define what the maximum rent can be.

talking to estate agent who seeing a flood of homes coming on market and will probably endup out of rental pool

Daft.ie statistics in few weeks in their report should be interesting

The government is hellbent on complete destruction of rental sector

All the changes in the past twenty years haven’t made much difference really so you could be right.

The minister said the state are providing €9bn but €11bn is needed from the private sector each year to ramp up housing supply. He said “….and the government are creating that framework through putting in the strongest tenancy measures in the history of the State, while giving the market and investors certainty as well, so we can drive that supply”. Is that €20bn needed just for the rental market and is the framework the new rental rules?

How long will it take before all those apartments from institutional landlords are available? Making the rules for landlords even more stringent at this stage wasn’t a great idea if it causes thousands of them to leave. Of course some of the ex-rental stock will be bought by owner occupiers which is good but until the promised rental apartments are available, tenants can’t find a place to live.

I agree and have made the same point.

A great way to reduce social housing lists and that seems to be the governments main focus.

Forget everyone else that doesnt qualify for social housing but as those folks aren't on any waiting list anyway, who is going to notice that we robbed Peter to pay Paul, right?

I don’t think policymakers are so naive that they don’t understand they can’t cheat the market. It’s all about supply and demand, with some temporary distortions — so stay firm and don’t let those distract you.

Sooner or later, governments may radically change their view that population growth is unconditionally a good thing. There is a real risk that people could become a burden — and what would happen to the rental market then? No one knows.

In my view, emission-driven inflation is the main risk right now. Market players will need to hedge against it.

We 100% need social housing of course we do.

I am not saying we shouldnt invest heavily in it because we should.

There are consequences for private renters however if a lot of ex private homes are flipped to social housing.

+1 All 3 houses sold on my street in the past year were bought by the council.

Not nice for local people trying to buy a place to live.

You"re going to get societal problems if people who are not working and not from the locality are prioritised over those who are working and paying taxes and from the locality.

The council buying houses takes these houses permanently out of the very limited pool of housing available for working families to buy.

Im not a landlord.!!!!

If social houses didnt have to have all the bells and whistles they would be cheaper and faster to build.