Dublin landlord hit with largest-ever RTB fine over failure to register tenancies
Sweet Home Accommodation Ltd issued €22,000 fine for breach of rental laws at six city centre properties
Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB)
Seventeen properties allegedly sub-divided and let to up to 80 people, High Court hears
Property letting agent allegedly divided sittingroom/living spaces into bedrooms and rented them without written tenancy agreements
Tenant awarded damages after landlord’s agent walks in on him while he was using the toilet
Representative of Quinn Property Management tells tribunal that agent will call or text before arrival in future
Tenants win €3,000 from landlord who told them he was selling house, but re-let it
An advertisement showed the vacated property available for a period of three years at a monthly rent of €2,200, the tribunal heard
Tenant accused of sending ‘threatening’ messages to landlord had built up rent arrears of €42,000
Tribunal orders tenant to pay maximum allowable €27,600 in arrears plus damages of €5,000
Landlord ended lease of tenant who worked from home after ‘massive increase’ in electricity bill
Residential Tenancies Board says notice of termination was invalid, but rules out compensation
‘Elite status’ woman not obliged to pay rent, RTB hearing told
Tribunal orders woman claiming ‘elite status in her bloodline’ to pay more than €4,000 in rent arrears
No match for Marty Morrissey when it comes to RTÉ moonlighters
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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
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‘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
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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
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