Landlords selling 2026

My point is that you can pick whatever year suits the headline you want. Do you disagree?

You are so full of it :) You take nothing on board at all and have a bee in your bonnet.

Use a time machine to go when it was cheaper.

Perhaps the increase of rents greater than inflation is simply the departure from the market of landlords who'd been locked into below market rents.

Chopping the lower tail off any distribution will shift the average up.

No, I don't think notices of termination are an issue if the rules are followed. They are in themselves advance notice of the end of a tenancy.

What I think is problematic is if you warn a large group of tenants that if you don't get your own way in a debate about future tenancies (not affecting those you have warned) you will issue termination notices. Here the landlord is attempting to rope in people who have nothing to do with his quarrel with the government. He is taking advantage of their desire to keep their homes.

None of this is to say that he did anything illegal. Just that the ethics of it are questionable.

Most properties in Ireland are rented fully furnished. Irish houses are of a much higher standard than many European houses. The interventions by the government have lots of regulations that are not applied in other countries, they are also not applied in private houses in Ireland, this needs to be reflected in the rent that is charged. In 1990, I could rent a bedsit for 20 punt, it barely had running water in the bathroom.

Now the government inspect every rental, they expect alterations done, the price of labour and materials is much higher in Ireland than most other countries in Europe.

We now have to provide a BER, this is going to cost e350 for every property, where do you think this money comes from? RTB fee, where does that money come from?

Ive managed all of my properties on my own up until now, and rented for below market, I've been stung too many times by tenants and government, and there is too much paperwork and red tape, now I am handing over my properties one y one to a property manager, he will be charging max rent, and will be taking 10% plus vat, I will still be better off than I am now, trying to give discounts, as a bleeding heart, only to have my a$$ handed to me by the government and a kick in the head from the tenants- I'll be happy out collecting more money and let the government lay it on, if it's a business model they want, it's a business model they will get.

Landlord isn't going to change any rule by roping anyone in on anything. Complete fantasy narrative on your part.

If terminations are part of the official rules how can they be unethical. Makes no sense.

It's unlikely a large landlord needs the money. But he's allowed to quit his business. If the argument is homes aren't a business. You need to get the govt to stop outsourcing it to a business.

It's got nothing to do with landlords. It's too much demand not enough supply. Govt is fueling demand and not creating supply.

Can't believe some idiots are STILL blaming the small, private rental property providers for the shortage in the market, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

You really want to have some level of hate for them to continue with that narrative.

”The anti landlord narrative is off the charts here in Ireland”

Agree. Is it because of something in the education system?
It doesn’t seem to register with a lot of people that landlords today are very different to landowners back in famine times but they’re tarred with the same brush. Our education system has indoctrinated successive generations about horrible landowners who turfed tenants out of their homes. We now have strict rental laws, tenants have significant rights, and there’s a major difference between today’s small landlords and the ruling landowners of the past, but landlords are still the reason for housing issues 🙄. It’s bizarre.

“This is a real, documented thing that's happening”

Hadn’t heard about that but it’s a horrendous way for any landlord to behave. They deserve whatever prosecution they get. (Will read the research linked)

Yes - I 100% think it is ok to say that.

Employers pressure workers into sex. Professors pressure students into sex.

Do we need separate legislation for every possible area where sex is asked for in exchange for something?

I believe the sex for rent debate and legislation is 100% to demonise landlords and soften the pitch to introduce more tenant friendly laws.

Several people in work have been told by their LL they are selling. So yea it's going to get ugly, but the government had to have foreseen this.