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Rent a flat in Dublin? Monthly payments have shot up by over a hundred quid

Dublin rents now are just 3.5 per cent lower than their highest point.

Updated at 10am

MONTHLY RENTS ROSE by 7.1% across the country in the second quarter of this year, compared to the same time last year.

Rents for houses were 6.4% higher, while apartment rents were 7.6% higher.

Dublin renters got hit the hardest with rents up an average of 9.2%. House rents in the capital were up 8.8%, while Dublin apartment rents were 9.4% higher.

Outside of Dublin the rise was more subdued, with a growth of 5.8%.

The rent for houses outside Dublin increased by 5.8%, while apartments experienced an increase of 5.9%.

So how much cash are we talking about? 

The rent for private sector accommodation in the second quarter of 2015 was €878, up from €820 during the same time in 2014.

The rent for apartments nationally was €922 (€857 a year earlier) and for a house it was €853 (€801 a year earlier).

In Dublin, the rent in the second quarter of 2015, was €1,387 for a house and €1,260 for an apartment.

A year earlier, the rent for a house was €1,275, and for an apartment it was €1,152.

This represents a monthly increase in Dublin rent of €112 for a house and €108 for an apartment over the 12 month period.

Outside Dublin, the rent in the second quarter of this year was €677, with houses averaging €695 and apartments €660. A year earlier, these figures stood at €640, €656 and €623 respectively.

This represents a monthly increase in rent outside of Dublin of €39 for a house and €37 for an apartment in the 12 month period.

Dublin rents just 3.5% lower than 2007

The data comes from the latest PRTB Quarterly Rent Index which is compiled by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) for the Board. The report is based on rent being paid, not the asking of advertised price.

The PRTB/ESRI Rent Index shows that, nationally rents peaked in the fourth quarter of 2007 before declining by 24% to their trough in the first quarter of 2012.

By Q2, 2015 rents nationally were 13.1% lower than their peak. While the peak-to-trough in the Dublin market was similar to that experienced nationally, the strength of the recovery in Dublin means that rents now are just 3.5% lower than their highest point.

In contrast, the market outside Dublin has experienced more subdued growth, and rental levels remain over 18% off their peak levels.

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    Mute andrew haire
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 6:40 AM

    Rent control should be brought in. Won’t happen under FG obviously. Also motor insurance is shooting up. Rip off ireland in full swing.

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    Mute Máire Ní Churráin
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 8:07 AM

    Apartment above us is going for 200€ more than what we’re paying and we’re only here a year! It’s disgraceful how letting agents are exploiting people!

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    Mute Máire Ní Churráin
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 8:09 AM

    Sorry and this is not Dublin its Kilkenny!

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    Mute Paul Somers
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:31 PM

    Neighbor has charged €600pm for a 3 bed bungalow in Co.Carlow, rent has not changed in last 3 years and not planning to change it, why would he – good tenant – respects the house and pays.

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    Mute Rebecca Hegarty
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:55 PM

    The house we recently moved out of was 1150 when we moved in two years ago, we left because of the ridiculous rental increases and it popped up on daft for 1750 having never seen a lick of paint or single improvement since it was 1150! They’ve no Shame

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    Mute Tony O'Regan
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 7:37 AM

    Ah but sure our government are confident they’re doing a great job. Makes my blood boil to see politicians say in Germany 75% of people are renters, like it’s something ‘European’ we should aspire they do, if we had the same rules and regulations as them people might be more willing/be happy to stay renting! Rent controls now! I’m lucky to have a good landlord but you’re rent cost going up 9.4% because you wee unlucky in your landlord is ludicrous!

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    Mute Jake Race
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 7:54 AM

    I’d never go back to renting. Having to beg someone else to fix problems, having no say over the decor, heating system etc. No thanks.

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    Mute Trevor Beale
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 8:01 AM

    If you want to give me the 20% deposit Jake, I’d be glad to jump on the property ladder with ya. No doubt I’d be saving money each month.

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    Mute Patlyndo
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 10:02 AM

    Will we ever learn? (PROPERTY LADDER!!!)

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    Mute Éamonn Tiernan
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:18 PM

    Amen to that. Rented fron 2001 – 2009 then bought. Never regretted it for a minute.

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    Mute Kathleen Kavanagh
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 6:56 AM

    Yes Andrew rent controls are required no argument – I am in Vancouver BC Canada at this time – there is a rent control at 2.5% annually has been in for many years – Landlords want good steady Tenants saves them the hassle of redo’s etc on the property(s) – Ireland WILL have this brought in there,is no way around this has gotten to messy.

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    Mute Gerry Grimes
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 9:28 AM

    Govt’s here have always refused to intervene with the market (whichever). They only did the Central Bank 10/20% deposit thing to artificially dampen demand because enormous house price increases are bad optics.
    The fact is that we have an enormous shortage of properties, the basic law of supply and demand means that rental prices will continue to rise.
    And for some reason it’s twice as expensive to build here than it is in Germany!
    It’s pointless to compare Vancouver or anywhere else where demand and supply are broadly equal. What we need is more property, banks to lend money to builders/investors and Govt to fastrack planning.

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    Mute cholly appleseed
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 9:39 AM

    All they succeeded in doing was increasing rental prices.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 10:01 AM

    Problem is too much Gov intervention in the boom and refusal to balance that out by strengthening tenant rights, longer leases, rental INCREASE caps.

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    Mute Jorge Thompson
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 12:49 PM

    And won’t they go up even further and faster when all the refugees coming need accommodation?

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 7:34 AM

    You wouldn’t rent a shed for €878. I think they’re pulling these figures out of their a$$!!

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    Mute Kristin Gilchrist
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 8:27 AM

    This article is pretty poor with lack of clarity on size of house and apartment. Way too vague.

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    Mute Spud
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 8:40 AM

    Exactly this. The article has annoyed me more than it has informed me.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 8:00 AM

    Endas government knows what it’s doing.
    Pushing up property valuations by restricting supply leading to misery in the rental sector means that the banks mortgage books look like they are backed up by properties with reasonable values.
    It’s not working.
    Anybody can build a house for less than someone is willing to sell a second hand home.
    There’s your problem right there.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 8:32 AM

    So far I have lived in my house 2 years now & my Landlord has not increased our Rent thankfully otherwise I would be on the streets like many other homeless people.. Rent controls need to be Introduced before we have more people on the streets or living in cars or tents, its scary..

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    Mute Conor Graham
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 8:53 AM

    What ever happened to supply & demand? It’s the basis for a free economy, no? Rent controls are limiting the ROI (return on investment) that a landlord can make. Bang out of line, IMO. What about landlords who lost money on their properties during the recession – was there a control put on that?

    I’m not a landlord or a renter – I just don’t think it should work 1 way & not the other. What if a landlord bought in 2006, and their monthly mortgage repayments are €1700 pm, and they get a rent control put on them of €1500 pm?

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 9:32 AM

    A very fair point. A lot of people are accidental landlords. A system whereby the monthly mortgage repayment is lower in return for a lower rent for the tenant, would work well, especially if the mortgage repayment and rent were fixed.

    This isn’t something that the Hidden Hand of the market is going to take care of, and is a prime candidate for sensible government intervention.

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    Mute Patlyndo
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 9:56 AM

    Value of your investment can go DOWN as well as up.

    Failed investors fail.

    Incidental landlords should be forced out. If their investment needs 1700 a month and the rent is 1500 then their investment has failed.

    I have said this before – rents should not be based on what peoples mortgages are – using that logic should a landlord with no mortgage let his property for cost?

    This is greedy and stupid people who played a role in destroying this country trying to gouge tenants to repay the banks.

    Shocking and disgusting behaviour.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 10:04 AM

    I’m not talking about institutional/intentional landlords, I am talking about many of my peers who are lumbered with a small apartment that they can’t sell because of negative equity.

    If their repayments were lower they could pass those savings onto tenants. Once their negative equity is paid down, there could be some sort of system in place to encourage them to sell.

    Landlords, even accidental ones, are not well liked, but we need to reform and improve the rental sector without piling debt onto accidental landlords, or jacking up rents for tenants, which is ultimately bad news for our economy in terms of productive money moving about (money in people’s pockets that gets spent in the real economy), and competitiveness.

    Regarding competitiveness, Ireland is a small country competing with other small countries for international investment, and local housing costs (along with taxation) are a big factor in deciding where to invest.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 10:15 AM

    “I’m not talking about institutional/intentional landlords, I am talking about many of my peers who are lumbered with a small apartment that they can’t sell because of negative equity.”

    So am I.

    “If their repayments were lower they could pass those savings onto tenants. Once their negative equity is paid down, there could be some sort of system in place to encourage them to sell.”

    What has their debt got to do with tenants? Are they in some kind of partnership?

    “Landlords, even accidental ones, are not well liked, but we need to reform and improve the rental sector without piling debt onto accidental landlords, ”

    Sorry – the accidental landlords piled themselves with debt – nothing to do with the tenants – they now hike their rents, gouge their tenants, to repay their debt to the bank.

    “or jacking up rents for tenants, which is ultimately bad news for our economy in terms of productive money moving about (money in people’s pockets that gets spent in the real economy), and competitiveness.”

    Yes, it is destroying the economy because when they gouge tenants they take that cash and when they get that cash they pass it to the bank..

    Your friends should accept their failed investments and take responsibility for their own debt. Nothing to do with tenants – they need to talk to the people they took the loans from.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 10:28 AM

    “What has their debt got to do with tenants?”

    Then what has their rent rate got to do with the government? Nothing.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 10:41 AM

    If it has nothing to do with the Government – then it is less to do with the landlords mortgage.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 11:26 AM

    ” they need to talk to the people they took the loans from.”

    And while they don’t do that, the tenants will suffer through higher rent to pay for the mortgage costs.

    I am suggesting government intervention to force lender and borrower to come quickly to an agreement, with all savings passed on to the tenant. Failure to do so is to the detriment of the tenant (and indirectly, to the economy).

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 12:41 PM

    “And while they don’t do that, the tenants will suffer through higher rent to pay for the mortgage costs.”

    They don’t do it because they do not want to accept any loss for their failed investment. So they gouge tenants for more rent, which is less money into the economy and when they get the money – they hand it over to the bank.

    “I am suggesting government intervention to force lender and borrower to come quickly to an agreement, with all savings passed on to the tenant. Failure to do so is to the detriment of the tenant (and indirectly, to the economy).”

    But why should they when tenants are easy pickings because of the lack of proper regulation for tenants – such as rental increase caps and longer mortgages, which is what I said in my first post.

    This is what will force failed investors to either settle with their lenders of take their own losses or go bankrupt.

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    Mute Conor Graham
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 12:46 PM

    That makes no sense, Patlyndo.

    You’re saying that landlords should just suck it up & take a hit on their investment if the numbers don’t work – yet at the same time you’re saying there should be a limit on the revenue that landlords can generate, thus handicapping them & their return on investment.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 1:12 PM

    Property should not be treated as an investment, There in lies the problem. There is no long term thinking in this country Conor. Pat is right your ‘investment’ has failed if the mortgage you are paying on an apartment is 1700 Euro for a one bed in dublin. This needs to be closed off with the bank, right downs or what given and get it back on the market for appropriate value.

    All this is doing is increasing rents and keeping money out of the REAL economy. Its short sighted and it will all come home to roost again.

    but sure you know that already,

    Idiocy of its finest and we never learn. Let FG stoke the market again now i cant wait to see what ‘sensible’ plan they will come up with.

    Building is DEAD in the country right now, supply is wrapped up with these 1700 per month ‘investments’ This has to be tackled.

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    Mute Derek Walsh
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 1:13 PM

    Simple solution: if a landlord’s mortgage would exceed the maximum amount he’s allowed to charge as rent, then his lending institution must give him the option of extending his mortgage to reduce the monthly payments.

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    Mute Conor Graham
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 1:33 PM

    “Property should not be treated as an investment”
    Says who? You? Is there any other part of someones life you’d like to control while you’re at it? You’re suggesting that investors are not allowed to make profits on their investments – or at the very least you want them capped. Ridiculous.

    @Derek – “his lending institution must give him the option of extending his mortgage” – they MUST do it, you say? Anyone else you’d like to dictate to?

    Thankfully we live in a country that has a free economy that works off the fundamentals of economics: supply & demand. You want control in 1 direction but not the other. Landlords making money off their investment? “CAP IT!” Landlords losing money? “Who cares – tough crap! Not my problem.”

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 1:55 PM

    Conor,

    “You’re saying that landlords should just suck it up & take a hit on their investment if the numbers don’t work”

    If their investments have failed then yes.

    “yet at the same time you’re saying there should be a limit on the revenue that landlords can generate, thus handicapping them & their return on investment.”

    Nope – not a limit on THEIR revenue, a limit on how much landlords can increase their rents every year. If this means that their numbers don’t work, then their investments have failed.

    Landlords are making their number works (failed investments) by gouging tenants as there is no cap in yearly rent increases.

    Makes plenty of sense.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 1:58 PM

    ” If this means that their numbers don’t work, then their investments have failed.”

    They’ve failed because you’ve capped them. You can limit someone and then criticise them for failing due to the limitations you’ve imposed on them. If it’s their house, they can charge what they like – let the market (i.e. supply & demand) dictate the price.

    Any other part of people’s lives you’d like to regulate?

    And I’m not even a landlord or a renter – I just believe in a free market based on supply & demand.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:00 PM

    “Says who? You? Is there any other part of someones life you’d like to control while you’re at it? You’re suggesting that investors are not allowed to make profits on their investments – or at the very least you want them capped. Ridiculous.”

    They are failed investors Conor, they are grossly distorting the rental market while claiming that they are basing their rents on the same rental market.

    “Thankfully we live in a country that has a free economy that works off the fundamentals of economics: supply & demand. ”

    And it also works off the fundamentals that if your investment has failed then it’s taken off you, or if you don’t pay your mortgage for months/years then this too is taken off you.

    You can’t have your “free” economy when it suits you Conor.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:02 PM

    “You can’t have your “free” economy when it suits you Conor.”
    Eh, when did I say it shouldn’t work both ways? I didn’t – so stop with the strawman.

    I agree with this, so stop acting like I’m contradicting myself:
    “if you don’t pay your mortgage for months/years then this too is taken off you.”

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:04 PM

    Conor,

    You have it backwards.

    Their investments have already failed.

    “They’ve failed because you’ve capped them”

    But they are not capped at the moment so how can that be?

    You say that people are entitled to make a profit from their investment — true – but the truth is that many landlords are adding to their repayments because their investment has failed, in order to try and grab back some money – they are rising rents – supply and demand one aspect, the ability to increase rents every year by up to and more that 20% is gouging.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:09 PM

    You have it backwards and are contradicting yourself.

    Want to see how many “investors” are in arrears – do you not see the connection with the banks allowing this to happen?

    The banks are quite happy to sit back and watch “investors” hiking up rents to repay those mortgages.

    Rigged market Conor – nothing free about it.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:09 PM

    How have they failed if they’re increasing the rent to cover their overheads? That’s not what ‘failed’ means. They’ll only have failed when they can’t afford the mortgage repayments and have to give the house back to the bank.
    And that could happen to them if you were in charge and started telling people how much they’re allowed to charge other people, like some sort of dictator.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:10 PM

    “Rigged market Conor – nothing free about it.”

    It is free – free you charge what you like. Renters free to take it or leave it.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:16 PM

    “How have they failed if they’re increasing the rent to cover their overheads?”

    Seriously?

    “That’s not what ‘failed’ means”

    Seriously?

    “And that could happen to them if you were in charge and started telling people how much they’re allowed to charge other people, like some sort of dictator.”

    Please please please point out to me where I said or indicated or even hinted that anyone should be told what to charge?

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:17 PM

    Again – who said anything about “dictating” what someone charge?

    You clearly cannot distinguish between a rental increase cap and a rent cap – no worries, you are not alone.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:18 PM

    “Please please please point out to me where I said or indicated or even hinted that anyone should be told what to charge?”

    You’re suggesting rent controls, DUH!

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:19 PM

    Well said Scoop – the banks will be delighted to see another generation waiting to step in and make the very same mistakes, always an upside though, as a renter I have accumulated a very nice pot, when the time is right I’ll be waiting.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:27 PM

    DUH – rental increase controls. DUH.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:45 PM

    “as a renter I have accumulated a very nice pot”

    You don’t need to pay rent?

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:51 PM

    Of course I need to pay rent Conor. Free market remember?

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:59 PM

    So your rent is little enough that you can also save?

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 3:25 PM

    Is it? Trying to wonder how you know where I live, where I rent, what I earn and that I save money. Mmmmm – and you called me a dictator for suggesting rental increase caps.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 3:26 PM

    I asked a question. When did I say I know all that info? And how does asking that question make me a dictator – explain your logical jump there.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 4:52 PM

    “You don’t need to pay rent?”

    “So your rent is little enough that you can also save?”

    Tell you what – ask your question, instead of continually trying to personalise the discussion. What has my rent have to do with anything?

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 4:55 PM

    It’s clear now that you’re just a butt-hurt renter. Instead of paying all that rent, you could have paid off half (?) a house by now. Work it out. Dead money. Failed investment.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 5:26 PM

    No Conor, you see had I bought 10 years ago then I would have a mortgage which is twice my current rent and NE to the tune of 150k.

    Renting for the past 10 years has saved me a fortune. I could rent for another 20 years – and still be better off than had I bought,

    As I said to you earlier – this is the problem for people, sure it’s wage cuts and new taxes – but the real problem is massive mortgages and massive debt accrued during the madness.

    Something that I don’t have,

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 6:34 PM

    Basically, what you’re saying is that you want to dictate how much someone can charge for something they own. It’s disgusting.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 7:52 AM

    We’re in this mess because of knee-jerk heavy-handed regulation that has squashed the housing market in Dublin.

    The mandate of the central bank needs to be widened so they are not operating in a silo. Surely it is a problem that a regulator has a narrowly defined responsibility when the consequences of their decisions are much further reaching?

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 7:39 AM

    Terrible

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 9:10 AM

    I’ll have to become a lot wealthier before I start feeling sorry or worried for landlords.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 10:03 AM

    As far as I can see regulation does nothing and is a waste of money CER -electricity price are through the roof,(although it has come down slightly in the last few months they are slow to pass on the decrease and the price decrease did not fall as much as it should have) The CER were also given the task of setting the price of water which they made a balls of and the govt had to step in! Central bank – Car Insurance is going up!! Lotto regulator – 50c on top of the price of one panel and more numbers making it more expensive and harder to win! Do these Quangos actually do anything!

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 9:08 AM

    Looks like I’ll have to buy or emigrate next year so.

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    Mute Kathleen Kavanagh
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 4:15 PM

    Stay where you are as crazy as it seems Carmo – things will get better and believe me the Cost of uprooting is worse – Ireland is at the ceiling and you will see breathing room in the near future – and if you choose to move abroad avoid Canada as it is in a recession now and cut backs are on a roll.
    Alberta province once the Cream of Canada is now in the tank with Oil decline. Chin Up!

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    Mute ISSA
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 5:17 PM

    Renting a room
    In Dublin for €650 a month …… Unbearable

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 3:13 PM

    Landlords are a greedy breed

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 3:17 PM

    I’m in NYC where a one bedroom apt is 2,100 a month and it’s the size of a shoebox and apparently I have it cheap for my neighborhood rentals here are ridiculous and it’s getting out of hand in Ireland too when is it going to stop

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    Mute Marco Pix
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 3:39 PM

    I am not against some kind of protection or regulation regarding tenants, but is it a task for the governement to impose a rental cap on privatly owned property? In my opinion, the government should take other measures to ensure that tenants also have the option to rent state owned property. When that comes into play, the landlords will have to adjust their prices to stay competitive or at least cap their rental increase.
    Who is to decide and on what basis what a fair rent anyway?

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    Mute Kal Ipers
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:21 PM

    This was easy to predict and it was. Threats of a new rent cap system made it very unwise not to put up rent before changes come in.
    With the increased taxes and expenses on rental income over the last few years it was inevitable rent would increase rapidly and by large amounts.
    People didn’t and don’t care about landlord sustainability which is very foolish. We need them and you can’t get rid of them and the ones that survive are those that maximise their profits when possible. Lots of people laughed at LL who subsidised rent to pay for the mortgage.
    The them and us post colonial hang up is a major problem that people have to get over.

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    Mute Patlyndo
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 2:29 PM

    Yes we need landlords – just not failed investors. Professional landlords. Not amateurs.

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    Mute Conor Graham
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 3:01 PM

    Clearly define both, Pat.

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 3:25 PM

    I will when you clearly define rental increase caps and rent caps. Thanks.

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    Mute Kal Ipers
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 5:16 PM

    Professional LL will maximise profit all the time which you are complaining about.
    We need a system fair to both parties. Deposit protection and quick evictions for example.

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    Mute Patlyndo
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 5:28 PM

    And longer leases and rental increase caps, capped to cost of living for example. By the way – I have never complained about anyone trying to make a profit, entitled to do it without gouging tenants through massive rental increases.

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    Mute Conor Graham
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 6:35 PM

    So you’re fine with people making a profit as long as you can dictate to them how they do it?

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    Sep 23rd 2015, 7:06 PM

    Pat
    I said maximise profit which you seem to call price gauging. You might want to look up the term because increasing rents in a country that gives a 4 year tenancy right after 6 months can’t really do it.
    Increased rents while costs went up is just normal economics, for rent to increase after years of losses isn’t unexpected or nasty either.
    Anyway any professional LL would put up their rent with possible caps coming in is just common sense and the longer they fap about the more rents will go up.

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    Mute Neuville-Kepler62F
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    Sep 23rd 2015, 4:44 PM

    Burglars are nothing compared to these Financial Predators
    - Landlords who Max peoples Rent
    - Banks who Max peoples Debt (personal and societal)
    - Political Parties (private clubs) who Max peoples Tax
    Time for Voters to bring their Brains to the Polling Booths.

    “His wife’s credit card was stolen recently but he didn’t bother reporting it as the thief was spending way less!”

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