Landlords selling 2026

What kind of fool would hand over a 200 to 500,000 euro asset to somebody they don't know with a 3000 euro deposit and a promise of rent every month, knowing that if they stop paying it will take 2 to 3 years and a lot of expense to recover your asset and you'll never see a penny from them. Now we have a minister who clearly things that's OK

We now have a scarcity of rental properties available. The government has brought in rules that will increase this scarcity even further. Basic economics says that this will cause rents to increase.

I know one landlord who is keeping a property empty for the next 12 months until rents go through the roof (even further) or he decides to sell up. This government is causing a scarcity of rental properties plus huge rent increases. This will hurt all areas of our economy.

Really? There's more tenants than landlords. The tenants will out vote landlords everytime.

I cant keep up with this debacle at all.

This government keep implementing SF policies. SF shout about them. Then the govt implement them, pretending they are their own. Then SF stand up and complain about the very thing they were asking for before..

A deal has been done. The council have been on to the tenants and have agreed to help some of them buy the houses. Some others are on hap or similar and the council are going to buy those properties outright so they can stay. The landlord has agreed to this with the council as long as the timescale is less than 2 years and the council guarantee the rents are paid in full until the time each property is bought. Good deal for everyone I think.

Think of the incentives that are there now, make sure there is a ring doorbell installed when your handing out eviction notices.

The bank bailout of the noughties will prove to be a bargain compared to the costs the government are incurring in this bubble

Are you assuming? presuming? complete guessing? as there is a different story going around. Also, the landlord and the video of their spokesperson said that they were issuing them as a safety measure, they showed that there was a strong possibility they would not follow through.

Ive done similar in one of my properties on two occasions, when my tenants were not following through on their obligations. I did not want to evict them, but at the low rent they are paying, I did not want the headaches as a result of their actions.

He says that maybe they wont be following through, that the final decision would be made in maybe 10 days. Honestly, can you blame them? they had no idea what was coming down the line. I had two properties stuck at minimal rent for 11 years, one at 50% and one 55% of market rate, The council coming along telling me the 'improvements' I needed to implement, amounting to over 16k, were the straw that broke the camels back. They received their notice, and the council are left finding them a place to live. If I knew then, what I know now, I'd have given large increases, and/or eviction notices to these before the announcements. The landlords on this occasion have rescinded the letters. If the government stopped messing about, it would put a lot of minds at ease. I was very close to selling one of my properties.

I dont think they can afford to do this for every eviction coming. I know though that this landlord had this plan all along. Get in first and get the deal done before the torrent hits.

Yes, he may have been caught by the fact that he was evicting more than 10 in one fell swoop, and he should have known this too.

But nevertheless, the guy he sent around did fail to mention that the new rules did not apply to existing tenants as he should have, and he was caught on camera in this failure. Possibly, he was trying to manipulate the tenants to approach the media and complain about the new regulations on behalf of the landlord "look, we're being made homeless because of these new laws!", and this would not have worked had they known.

NO personal disrespect, but you have made- assumptions in every reply you have put up. We have the facts that were given in the video, unless some new 'factual' information comes up, how can anyone, or why would anyone respond- in any way to completely hypothetical situations.

MAybe yes, maybe no? It's difficult enought to have a discussion based on factual information in a forum, but throwing in 'what if's' , 'coulda shoulda woulda', makes it impossible and throws any discussion completely off-topic and makes those statements irrelevant.

what you fail to realise is the new rules directly effect their tenancies. Up until now. Rpz were always “temporary”. Landlords were hopeful that they would change the laws so that viability would improve. The government basically changed the nature of the existing laws from temporary to permanent and the new rules would be for new registrations. The old Rpz rules are awful(there is a reason we have nearly 30pc less total rentals in the past 10 years) and basically mean all existing tenancies are non viable if well under market rate and don’t have a hope of ever getting them to market rate if the tenant stays put.

”Nothing in the new rules affects the profitability or viability of existing tenancies.”

The only person/s who knows that are the property owners.

Maybe they’re not profitable, maybe the owners want to exit the rental market, maybe they have huge debts. Maybe they believed the blurb that rents could be re-set to market rates and then found that wasn’t true. Maybe they’re fed up trying to run a business where the rules keep changing. Maybe they’ve had enough being labelled evil, gougers, dodgy and blamed for every problem in the rental market.
Any number of reasons they might want to sell.

Govt outsourced and thus mixed social hiring into private housing. It's been a disaster since.

I agree theres a cultural narrative here that needs to changed in Ireland. But theres no awareness in Govt of that. It's all short term vote grabbing and cronyism and corruption.