Landlord ordered to pay €20,000 over threat to evict family and refusal to accept HAP
Tenant told Muhammad Naeem Aslam that he needed State support to cover rent as he was due to have surgery
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Dublin’s homeless costs to top €400m next year
No reduction in homelessness expected in 2026 as more than €50m added to the capital’s budget
Apartment standards case is latest challenge to hit Coalition’s housing crisis response
By replacing its own revised guidelines, the Government is trying to put in place a hastily constructed safety net
We need 75 firms building 400 units each a year to meet housing targets
International capital rather than labour and skills is what’s required to meet housing targets
Nurse who had not had lie-in ‘for 18 months’ over noise from apartment above is awarded €2,000
RTB tribunal found the ‘lack of any meaningful response’ to the concerns raised by the tenant had prolonged a ‘difficult situation’ for her
Long-awaited housing plan to be unveiled against backdrop of fall in new commencements
Plans for additional €400m support from the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund for developers
What do we know about the Government’s new housing plan?
The delayed plan aims to deliver 90,000 ‘starter homes’ over the next five years. But how?
Rental crisis to intensify as ‘starved of supply’ housing stock dips below 2,000
Housing stock is now less than half of the average available supply between 2015 and 2019
New housing plan aims to deliver 12,000 social homes and 15,000 affordable units per year
Coalition’s long-awaited plan set to include expansion of Land Development Agency’s role
Dublin City Council tenants face rent rises up to 50% in first overhaul in 30 years
Council wants higher-income tenants to pay significantly more, with a fifth of households earning €1,000 net a week
Number of renters seeking help from housing charity rises more than 20% in a year
Threshold said most were at risk of homelessness due to landlords seeking to sell their home
Tenant wins €23,000 compensation after landlords sent eviction notices during HAP dispute
William Gallagher secured sum on discrimination and victimisation grounds against Jenny Brennan and Matthew Hannigan
Am I liable to capital gains because a tenant refused to move out when we bought our home?
Overholding is a growing problem for landlords but people should be very careful of buying a family home without vacant possession
The 10 lessons I learned from living with 76 people over two decades
The highs and horrors of sharing a roof in Dublin, Cork, Galway and beyond
No need for a calculator to learn how the budget will affect your pocket
Budget 2026: Most if not all of the gains will be wiped out by the enduring cost-of-living crisis
‘There’s no way I will be able to buy a house’: What people want from Budget 2026
A renter, a landlord, a teacher, a farmer, a pensioner, a business owner share their views
Gardaí and nurses among ‘key workers’ eligible to rent new low-cost Dublin city homes
Middle Abbey Street and North Frederick Street chosen for ‘bold urban-rejuvenation’ pilot scheme
DCU should reconsider on-campus student rent hikes, says Minister
James Lawless asks university to justify rise in service charges covering utilities on campus
This was the moment I’d been dreading since the landlord gave me notice
Home wasn’t something I’d ever had to create before. I’d lived in 22 places since leaving home in my troubled teens
Dublin college increases fees in on-campus student accommodation in RPZ loophole
Residential Tenancies Board says an increase in service charges is permissible under rental laws
‘Nowhere to live’: Ireland’s student accommodation crisis is only getting worse
Students face a dearth of on-campus beds, hours-long commutes, couch-surfing and a scrap for rooms in an already overheated private rental market. There is no quick fix
Number of landlords investigated over serious breaches in rental law doubles
RTB has started 249 new investigations into deliberate breaches of rental law so far this year, compared with 124 in all of 2024
Landlord who changed locks forcing tenant to sleep in park is fined €34,800
One tenant was forced to sleep in a park after the landlord unlawfully changed locks, tribunal hears
Student accommodation group defers €500m investment amid sector uncertainty
Global Student Accommodation Group has deferred the investment amid policy uncertainty over the sector
The debate: Does every apartment really need a balcony?
Are apartment balconies a waste of space and money - or valuable access to the outdoors for city dwellers?
Middle-aged renters: ‘At this age, unless I won the Lotto, how would I afford anything?’
Average asking rents are now twice what they were at the peak of the Celtic Tiger period. At the 2002 census, 27 was the age at which more than half of householders owned their own home. In 2022, it was 36
10 things to make Dublin better, from public baths to scrapping gated communities
Open schoolyards at weekends, softer lighting and more places to sit down would help
‘It’s brutal out here’: US students drawn to Ireland struck by hard realities of rental market
Young Americans worried about an oppressive atmosphere in the US, many of whom share Ireland’s pro-Palestine leaning or have Irish heritage, describe the ‘stressful process’ of trying to find accommodation
Student accommodation: 70 ads, seven viewings and one ghosting later, I still had nothing. Then I got lucky
One house in Rathmines with extremely reasonable rent got over 1,000 hits within the first six hours of it being uploaded
Going to college? How to find student accommodation and what to watch out for
How to maximise chances of finding a student place to live and figuring out costs
‘I felt treated like a dog’: The Dublin landlord behind evictions, fines, short contracts
Tenants have complained about Leevin Ireland, the property company offering ‘a place to call home’ for international students and professionals
Students warned over rental scams ahead of CAO offers this week
Garda warning comes at typical annual peak in accommodation scams, which have risen 22 per cent in six months
Average monthly rents now twice those of Celtic Tiger peak, data shows
First-time buyers in Dublin may now need six-figure salary to qualify for mortgages
Older renters are particularly vulnerable amid Ireland’s housing crisis
How are people with disposable income of €20,067 to afford the average rent of €17,280?
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