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Renting

Last week
16th March 2025 - 22nd March 2025
The Morning Lead
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.
Eoghan Dalton
21 Mar
20.8k
38
RELATED
Landlord trying to add monthly common area fee to bills despite earlier agreement with watchdog
17 Mar
Ireland's biggest private landlord looks to add monthly €200 'common area' fee to apartment block
8 Mar
'It keeps me awake every single night with worry': Your stories of Ireland's rental crisis
28 Sep 2021
The Morning Lead
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.
Eoghan Dalton
17 Mar
33.4k
This month
March 2025
The Morning Lead
Ireland's biggest private landlord looks to add monthly €200 'common area' fee to apartment block
Eoghan Dalton
8 Mar
76.8k
166
Renting
Rent-a-Room scheme allowing social welfare recipients to take in tenants extended
Updated 4 Mar
41.7k
76
Last month
February 2025
Dublin
What exactly is 'affordable' housing ... and how much should it cost?
22 Feb
14.0k
3
Housing Crisis
'The owner asked after five days if I wanted sex': International students on sex-for-rent ads
19 Feb
15.9k
boland's mills
Dublin apartments for key workers go up for rent at 'discounted' rate starting at €1,710
18 Feb
26.3k
60
Housing Crisis
€450m Exchequer boost to provide 3,000 cost rental, affordable and social homes
18 Feb
8.9k
21
housing crisis meeting
Starter homes, short-term let laws and rent cap review to be prioritised by government
Updated 17 Feb
13.1k
54
TheJournal.ie
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PodcastThe Candidate
The government has put the fear of God into renters
Christine Bohan, Christina Finn, Jane Matthews, and Rónán Duffy look at the new Dáil’s handling of the housing crisis so far. What tone has been set?
30m
no homes to find
Beyond the Pale: 'The Dublin rental market feels like one big pressure zone'
Sylvia Power
15 Feb
10.9k
74
Housing Crisis
Housing limbo: 'I've moved house 13 times in the past 10 years'
Maria Kelly
Updated 13 Feb
15.3k
41
rent pressure zones
Renters 'bracing themselves' for increases as Taoiseach slammed over rent pressure zone comments
11 Feb
15.4k
72
Renting
Landlord group ‘delighted’ that rent pressure zones could be removed
10 Feb
20.8k
61
Last year
2024
Renting
The average rent for new tenancies in Ireland has grown to over €1,600
5 Dec 2024
12.8k
62
Housing Crisis
Only 33 rentals available through HAP across 16 local authority areas
Updated 22 Oct 2024
10.2k
41
Budget2025
Single working woman: 'This budget just flat out ignored anyone without a family and a home'
Single woman
1 Oct 2024
23.9k
45
Housing
Eoin Ó Broin: Renters need security, affordability and a pathway to a permanent home
Eoin Ó Broin
17 Aug 2024
10.9k
98
Student Accommodation
Govt to expedite legal change to stop student accommodation providers mandating 51-week leases
28 May 2024
8.9k
11
Housing Crisis
Major housing report criticises government for 'ineffective decision-making and risk aversion'
Updated 21 May 2024
17.8k
115
Housing Crisis
Rent Pressure Zone caps extended until December 2025
14 May 2024
8.8k
18
The Daily Poll
Poll: Are you a renter?
7 Apr 2024
24.3k
47
wealth gap
Ireland’s true class divide: Home-owners hold 97% of wealth. Renters? Just 3%
7 Apr 2024
31.8k
67
fine gael ard fheis speech
Lower tax for €50k earners and 50k homes built each year: Simon Harris makes promises at FG Ard Fheis
6 Apr 2024
63.6k
147
The Morning Lead
More than 5,000 applications for 535 cost-rental homes in Dublin and Kildare
Christina Finn
27 Jan 2024
33.2k
51
Housing
Motion to increase tax on bulk buying of homes for private rental to be opposed by Govt
17 Jan 2024
17.2k
31
All time
Housing
Government aims for new short-term let rules to be up and running by summer 2024
27 Dec 2023
14.7k
0
Housing
Expert group to examine the whole process around buying a house from bidding to probate
14 Nov 2023
16.5k
53
short-term lets
Housing minister to meet European Commission next month over delays in Airbnb crackdown
4 Nov 2023
19.5k
49
Renting
Threshold calls for NCT-style inspections of rental properties over concerns about poor standards
31 Oct 2023
14.4k
65
ESRI
Rent for sitting tenants is over 15% lower than rent for newer tenants in similar properties
20 Sep 2023
6.4k
19
Housing
Average rent for new tenancies in Ireland rose by almost 9% year-on-year
31 Aug 2023
8.9k
38
Renting
Over 5,700 notices to quit issued to tenants in second quarter after eviction ban lifted
10 Aug 2023
13.2k
78
Housing
New income limit for cost-rental scheme comes into effect, increasing to €66,000 in Dublin
1 Aug 2023
23.7k
26
rent credit
Just one in ten registered tenants have claimed €500 rent tax credit this year
22 Jul 2023
19.2k
37
Report
Irish households generally don't spend more income on housing compared to elsewhere in Europe
20 Jul 2023
14.5k
46
renters
Cabinet signs off on cost-rental income ceiling increase for renters
Updated 18 Jul 2023
26.7k
40
Housing Crisis
Department of Housing returned more than €380m to exchequer due to underspend by Govt
1 Jun 2023
7.5k
38
Housing
Census 2022: New stats show how much average rents have risen in the private sector since 2016
30 May 2023
10.0k
9
summer 2023
Govt summer priorities: Renters' rights, safe access zones, vaping rules and late-night pubs
20 Apr 2023
10.1k
6
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