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2025
RTB writes to major landlord Ires Reit over attempts to impose monthly common area charges
Ires Reit had attempted charging tenants as much as €200 at one of its Dublin apartments.
Landlord trying to add monthly common area fee to bills despite earlier agreement with watchdog
Ires Reit had agreed to scrap the monthly €150 charge after a challenge by one tenant last year.
Ireland's biggest private landlord looks to add monthly €200 'common area' fee to apartment block
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Dispute over regulator's figures for unregistered landlord complaints
'A chronic over-reliance': 76% of social housing came from the private rental sector last year
Report shows rents in Dublin are going to keep going up by 5-6% until 2019
Tenants' rights are being trampled on, but there's a lack of political will to help
Mick Byrne