rent pressure zones

Emergency law will mean remaining 55 out of 166 electoral areas to become RPZs this month

Tenants and property owners find themselves in an unlikely alliance in opposing proposed reforms – albeit for different reasons

Most studies show rent controls depress development

Some in the Coalition parties fear the costs could outweigh the gains regarding changes to rent pressure zones regime while others point to the longer-term electoral picture

Domestic market in flux amid fresh round of planned reforms

The most worrying feature of the Coalition’s first six months in office has been the impression of drift. This is a step in the right direction

Government hopes more investors will deliver more homes and cause rents to fall in coming years, but the Opposition has attacked the plans

Renters such as students who have to move each year will get hammered by this provision, while other tenants are more likely to stay put

Rent Pressure Zones to be extended across the State but landlords allowed to reset rents every seven years

Housing is increasingly taking on the characteristics of a public good such as health or education in voters’ minds

Average rents may increase in short term, according to research paper published as Government unveiled plans to overhaul sector

Government agrees to extend Rent Pressure Zones and allow higher rent increases in new builds

Landlords will be classified as big or small for the first time under changes being proposed to Cabinet today

Changes are being introduced to mitigate effects rising property values have on tax bills

Rent Pressure Zones reforms will see changes for landlords and renters

Housing measures could leave Coalition exposed to political attacks and public backlash

Property owners group says planned reforms, set to go before Cabinet on Tuesday, would be unfair to private landlords

Proposals to ease restrictions on rent increases for newly built homes in rent pressure zones will go before Cabinet on Tuesday

Cost-rental tenants may benefit from lower rents in future

Cap of 2% rise per annum will apply to existing tenancies but landlords will be able to charge more between tenancies

Residents blame short-term lets and holiday homes for worsening the Co Mayo town’s accommodation shortage

We are heading for a decade of failure to get to grips with a growing social disaster. That’s long enough to fix things, even in Ireland

Opposition plans ‘Raise the Roof’ protest on housing amid new measures

Report on reform of rent caps to be brought to Coalition leaders next week with Cabinet decision expected soon

Lifting controls to encourage international investment is arguably the biggest gamble this Coalition will take

Sweet Home Accommodation Ltd issued €22,000 fine for breach of rental laws at six city centre properties

Housing starts fall to four-year low according to quarterly analysis from Construction Information Services

An advertisement showed the vacated property available for a period of three years at a monthly rent of €2,200, the tribunal heard

Ireland’s development pipeline is stalling precisely when new housing is most desperately needed, investment firm Elkstone claims

Ires chief Eddie Byrne wants changes to the rent cap rules in a bid to get investment flowing again into apartment building

Short-term lets in towns with a population of more than 10,000 will have to be registered

Majority of Dublin's big apartment landlords not implementing sustainable processes that would maximise value of their investment, CBRE research finds

Regulatory policy must be grounded in stability and simplicity to attract the required capital

ESRI puts forward three options to replace rent pressure zone structure, which now operates across 66 urban areas in 17 counties

I’m leaning towards keeping the property for my children

Threshold voices concern about investment properties being tied up in lucrative holiday letting markets

It hard to imagine a bigger kaleidoscope of policies and measures sitting beside any property market in the world

Allowing rent resets when a home becomes vacant, along with greater opportunities for maintenance and improvements to be recouped, represents the best way to resolve issues in the rental market

‘We have to simply work on attracting private sector investment into house building at an appreciable scale that will make the difference’

Four–fifths have lower energy efficiency ratings and would cost up to €43,000 each to upgrade