Landlords selling 2026

Emlematic, Still kindly waiting for an update on stats since RPZ were introduced. We have lost a large swath of rentals over the past 10 years. Do you think punishing landlords is good for creating supply.

Do you consider cost rentals and ahb part of the private rental market given not everyone is entitled to this stock and they have started to count these in prs. 5000 cost rentals were added. If at least these were taken out, we would have a clearer idea of what is happening on the ground.

7000 unregistered landlords were sent notices as well. I suspect this had a part to play. Given the fact we built over 30k homes last year are any of these going to rentals.

Given we recently had social tenants up in arms over rent increases all of which are severely off market rate where rent increases might not have happened in decades and can no longer cover maintenance, im not sure its in our best interest to expect these gov related homes to be self sustainable in 50 years time.

You always have to look at figures from the RTB with some caution. They always quote "registrations" in their statistics. This includes registrations of Student Specific Accommodation and AHBs as well as private rentals. They like the narrative of "registrations increasing" as this justifies their existence. You wont see them release stats on Private Rental Registrations (separately). Even the introduction of annual registration has impacted on their statistics. They also quote eviction numbers as a % rather than an absolute number. With the number of "registrations" increasing, this masks the actual eviction number trends. Eviction notices also excludes tenancies which end naturally and are not renewed.

They have started to include cost rental tenancies in the figures, where previouosly they didn't. These are not the same as standard private rental tenancies and are skewing both the number of tenancies and even more crucially, the market rent register. Cost rental must be a minimum of 25% below market rent and they can be increase by more than 2% if the AHB wants. Including them in the market rent calculator is either a monumental mistake a deliberate ploy to lower private rents.

Could I ask you where you are getting this belief that cost-rentals are included in the market rent averages? According to the RTB:

"From Q2 2024, tenancies identified as Cost Rental tenancies were removed from the Rent Index samples (for both new and existing tenancies) as the Rent Index is designed to measure price developments in the market price private rental sector."

https://rtb.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RTB-Rent-Index-Q3-2025-Final-1.pdf

So the opposite appears to be the case.

There is great analysis over on ask about money on the rtbs rent calculators and what they include in their stats.

There is also a comprehensive beat down of the RTBs false reporting too with actual proof of it.

Some very interesting reading.

I'm not particularly suprised either. But from reading this forum you would get the impression that almost all private landlords have departed the market, when in-fact the number of tenancies is increasing.

There's a lot of landlords on this forum and that narrative suits them. It's like the landlord in Wexford who issued eviction notices to 36 homes because of the new rules. Of course the new rules don't affect existing rentals so it was of course all bullshit. But it helped to drive the narrative that they wanted

A small reduction in tenancies under the old system might be a good thing in the long run, especially if it is on the basis tenants leaving voluntarily, as this frees up the house for more secure accommodation. In my view a better use of the country's housing stock.

Under the new system there's a 6 year reset. Asking anybody who is buying these days, they generally rent for 3-5 years before buying so having the security of knowing how much you are paying for 6 years is probably about right.

You're still failing to provide us with links to the particular post you find impressive on that forum, I'm afraid. Post the link here and we'll discuss it. I've got a feeling that when you do point it out, it won't be that impressive, which is why you are not doing it, but let us see.

I think the poster on that forum does have a point in that in certain circumstances the RTB calculator will underestimate inflation when CPI data for the end date is not available. It will calculate up to the point it has CPI data which will result in missing a month of CPI growth.

While the calculator is not perfect, the problem here is not that the calculator is wrong but rather that better instructions need to be given.

From the instructions for cost rental landlords (but the same principles apply to private landlords in determining inflation for the period):

https://rtb.ie/renting/setting-reviewing-rent/setting-and-reviewing-rent-in-a-cost-rental-tenancy/

How rent is set

Rent for cost rental tenancies is calculated using a specific formula:

((A / B) – 1) × C

A is the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) at the end of the month before the rent is being set or reviewed

For new tenancies, this is the month before the rent is set.

For rent reviews, it’s the earlier of:

The date the rent review notice is signed, or

The date the new rent is to take effect.

B is the HICP at the end of the month before the last rent was set

This could be the original rent set when the property became cost rental, or the amount set during the last review.

C is the most recent rent amount in euros

This could be the original rent, or the rent from the last review.

So to correctly use the calculator, you put in as the start date the end of the month prior to the date of the last rent being set, and for the end date you put in the end of the month prior to the date of the new rent being set. Simples!

A minute ago, you were using RTB figures, now you are disregarding the historic RTB figures as they dont suit the agenda and using the cso figures. Why not compare like for like as the RTB figures show we have less rentals compared to 10 years. Considerably less rentals..

The CSO isnt a true reflection on the private rented sector. This includes local authority housing. This is self reported vs legally required landlord compliance.

Hmm, would you call the following bodies anecdotal - DAFT,Estate agents, ESRI, SCSI. You are cherry picking your data vs looking at the overall picture. If you strip out ahb as these are not private sector rentals and account for landlord compliance figures where 60+percent that were sent letters registered, you will see we have had a decline in supply last. A smaller decline than i would have expected but still a decline.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0224/1560034-rent-rise-daftie/

-"The research also found that there were fewer than 1,800 homes available to rent nationwide on 1 February.

According to Daft, this is down 22% compared to the same date one year ago and is by far the lowest level of availability for this time of year in a series extending back to 2006"

https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/economy/arid-41815010.html

-Real estate agents saying landlords make up majority of sales.

https://irishrealestate.news/landlord-exits-set-to-deepen-irelands-rental-shortage-as-86-of-agents-expect-further-contraction/

-"The SCSI sentiment index tracking buy-to-let properties coming to market for sale recorded a net balance of +27% in the second half of 2025, signalling a sustained increase in rental properties being sold rather than retained. "

https://www.esri.ie/publications/the-supply-side-effects-of-rent-controls-evidence-from-ireland

ESRI:

-"rent controls are associated with more sale listings and fewer rental listings/registrations. The negative impact of rent controls on room rental listings is, likewise, consistent with market exit rather than simply reduced mobility."

https://www.independent.ie/business/money/big-jump-in-number-of-eviction-notices-ahead-of-new-rental-rules-coming-in/a1183014686.html

RTB: Notice to terminate increased by 41pc. These take time to end especially since overholding disputes have also increased. So this time next year we will have a better picture of these figures.

Do you think all of these are false/anecdotal?

If rental supply was increasing over the past 10 years, why have rents increased, why are people finding it impossible to get a rentals now vs 10 years ago, it was very easy. Im not sure how active you are in the industry or just doing this based on theory but im sure if you talked to anyone that was looking to rent, they are finding it hard to secure a place or the rent is very expensive. Both indicators of a not so healthy market where supply isnt increasing.

And yet I constantly hear and read (particularly on some other threads) that immigration (which accounts for the rapid increase in population) has nothing to do with the problems in finding accommodation to rent or buy plus difficulties in accessing a myriad of other services.

Maybe the penny is finally dropping 🤔

That's RTB misrepresentation. There are cost rental properties in the rent register. As per @MadeInKerry , go to the thread they linked. There was a real example given where a load of tenancies, with the same start date/renewal date/rent amount, in the same development, which happens to be a Cost Rental one.

The RTB are gerrymandering/ misrepresentating the figures or just lieing about tenancies increasing in real terms (supply). Of course they will when you add in properties that were outside the scope before).

The whole RTB/government stance on supply increasing is a Comical Ali / PR narrative.

"Everything i quoted indicates supply has decreased from several official bodies."

Except the figures that show number of rental tenancies is increasing.

I have already outlined why it might show as increasing. As others have mentioned, you can also see on askaboutmoney how these figures provide false sense of registration increases. The RTB pointed towards extra compliance with registrations. This means that there is some rentals not accounted for in the past that are now registered. This does not mean we have more rentals but simply they were caught and forced to register. Given the fact we are building circa 30k houses per year at the moment, if supply isnt decreasing, surely at least 10pc of the new housing completions would be allocated to PRS and would be causing it to go up by a few k per year. Instead we are seeing it flatline at best including ahb and rentals being forced to register. As mentioned already, the evictions will take time to go through, tenants have 6 months or potentially more before we see the real picture. it will probably be march or even the quarter after it next year before we really see the true picture. All the rentals leaving will also be the properties with the cheapest rents while the ones that enter will be top dollar due to the way the government have orchestrated this.

The RTB figure also illustrates that over the past 10 years, there has been a drop in total rental supply.

I was wrong about local authority housing. you were correct for this. I still dont trust this however as literally every other industry group advises that supply has decreased.

"I think you may be mistaking properties currently on the market for rent looking for tenants with rental stock" > what does this mean?

So do you think estate agents, ESRI, Irelands own housing agency,SCSI are all wrong?