No match for Marty Morrissey when it comes to RTÉ moonlighters
Plus: Michael O’Leary’s brush with the Residential Tenancies Board; and Michael Lynn’s latest legal move
Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB)
RTB tribunal orders tenant to vacate Galway property she was renting for almost 20 years
Mother of two says housing charities and local council advised not to leave the property because ‘there is nothing else out there’
Tenant who says bed bugs forced him out of apartment is awarded €1,000 in damages
Landlord unlawfully entered flat, changed locks and removed man’s possessions, tribunal found
Landlord ordered to pay €3,200 after tribunal hears migrant couple allegedly told ‘tenants have no rights in this country’
RTB body orders couple to vacate Cork City property and pay some €8,000 in rent arrears
Tenants who were ‘full of hatred’ followed and video-recorded neighbours, tribunal hears
But Residential Tenancies Board unable to uphold validity of landlord’s notice to terminate occupiers’ lease
Landlord’s visits to defrost freezer and remove dryer fluff breached tenant’s right to peaceful occupation
‘Hands-on’ landlord Rita Kelly is ordered to pay €2,000 damages to tenant
What do I need to know in order to rent out my parents’ former home?
I’m leaning towards keeping the property for my children
‘People shouldn’t have to live the way we are’: Limerick housing crisis pushing people into homelessness
Limerick city saw the largest annual increase in rents in the country last year, according to Residential Tenancies Board data
Hong Kong group owns more than €58m in Irish properties
Group controlled by Dublin-based Yong Wu is part of wave of Chinese investment in property in the capital
Chinese investors sink large sums into north Dublin property
Group buying properties in Dublin 1 and 3 is providing services to high net-worth Chinese, says LinkedIn profile
Lord Rothermere’s lead Dublin tenant is part of ‘middle-class eco rabble who want to kill off free speech’
Plus: the Conor McGregor donation that never was; agent Noel Kelly’s unchanged fortunes at RTÉ; and the four Oireachtas members with prize-bond fever
Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere in a spot of bother with his Dublin tenants
Plus: Marc MacSharry will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree; Sammy Wilson’s silence; and Henry Kelly’s political allegiance
Trinity argues law not intended for students to decide who comes and goes from accommodation
Former Student’s Union president László Molnárfi lodged dispute over ‘paternalistic’ overnight policy
Landlords with 100-plus tenancies in Dublin now have 26% of rental market
Number of institutional landlords in capital has grown, with average rent for new tenancies at €2,226
The Debate: Could granny flats help tackle the housing crisis?
Call them ‘seomraí’, ‘shedsits’ or garden cabins, the Government’s plan to relax rules on garden dwellings is dividing experts
Simon Harris hedges bets to include both Biden and Trump on his Christmas card list
Bernard Jackman correction, confusion around a Love/Hate revival and Michael O’Leary’s former Russian tenants
Thousands of landlords face fines of up to €15,000 for illegally increasing rents in fresh crackdown
RTB data identifies 16,000 ‘tenancies of concern’ with rent rises above 2 per cent
High noon for developer Paddy Kelly, who faces run-in with the sheriff over unpaid rent arrears
Plus: Imma cafe operator departs over contract changes; former Ponzi schemer takes up golf; and Patagonia wants to shut the world out
Tenant loses High Court appeal claiming landlord had duty to maintain apartment common areas
Leonardo De Oliveira Lima highlighted issues with gates, CCTV, intercoms and heaters at his Swords apartment complex
Co Laois tenant granted damages from housing body over alleged anti-Traveller abuse from neighbour
In separate case, tenant told by RTB to pay arrears of €12k on property where electricity had been cut off due to non-payment of bill
A fifth of homelessness budget should be spent on prevention measures, Threshold says
Charity says landlords are taking advantage of the rent pressure zones system
A ‘flagrant disregard for the law’: Landlords ordered to pay damages to tenants over CCTV monitoring
Cameras at Co Cork property sent notifications to couple’s phones when tenants entered and exited
Landlord must pay €12,000 after serving notice of termination and then re-advertising at higher rent
Natalie Gorghi rented property with her family for more than 11 years
Pensioner who sold personal items to fund rent ordered to pay €6,000 rent arrears
Tenant ‘did not have enough money to eat at times’, both sides in dispute were ‘let down’ by Hap process, RTB tribunal hears
Mother ordered to vacate rental property after failing to comply with landlord’s order to remove XL bully dogs
Tenant argued she had not breached the lease as she had prior consent to keep two labradors at the house
Is a room rented under rent-a-room scheme restricted by RPZ rules?
Exceptions to rent pressure zone rules can be valuable but do make sure you are staying precisely within the rules
Rent arrears, overholding and a combination of both accounted for 42% of disputes lodged with RTB
Tenants were ordered to pay more than €4.3 million in rent arrears by RTB tribunals in the period from January to November of this year
Number of registered landlords up by 5.7% in a year
Number of registered private tenancies increased by 8.4% to 236,198
What does the 2025 housing market have in store? Property experts make their predictions
Lack of supply continues to be the main issue in the market, while falling interest rates continue to have a positive effect
Developer Paddy Kelly’s wife fails in bid to overturn order to vacate Dublin 4 home
RTB had upheld as valid a notice of termination of tenancy served by Miracove on Maureen Kelly in June 2021, with a tenancy end date of January 2022
‘Despite having a roof over my head I still don’t feel safe’
Focus Ireland’s latest Insights report documents how 50 families experienced homelessness
Tenant ordered to vacate property in Kerry after landlords believed she had falsified name and work details
After noting that rental payments were ‘slow coming in’, the landlords discovered that the tenant’s payments were coming from a Revolut account under a different name
I rent out a property for €1,400 a month. Can I raise it to €2,300 after making energy upgrades?
I rent out a property for €1,400 a month. The open-market rent would be about €2,300
Tenant was forced to vacate Cork house after landlord put 6ft fence around it
Woman awarded damages by RTB tribunal says she was forced to vacate house that was ‘completely boarded up’ so she could get in and out only through front door
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