New Rental Laws – Facts at a glance
Did you know that: If a tenant moves out of a property the new rent is subject to the new rent control measures (if in a rent pressure zone) If a property is sold the new owner can still onl...
Review of Rent Pressure Zones
On foot of a commitment made by Simon Coveney T.D., former Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, to review the Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) measure, the Rental Market a...
Changes to Residential Tenancies Act
Latest changes to Residential Tenancies Act Additional proofs required by Landlord in certain instances to terminate tenancy Amendments have been made to Sections 34 and 35 (reasons to termi...
New Legal Requirements for Rental Properties
New Housing Standards Regulations for Rental Properties came into effect on 1st July 2017. The HOUSING (STANDARDS FOR RENTED HOUSES) REGULATIONS 2017 add to the previously existing standards...
NEW GUIDELINES ON THE “SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE” EXEMPTION IN RENT PRESSURE ZONES
The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) has published a new set of guidelines on what constitutes “substantial change” in rented properties for the purposes of exemptions from rent pressure zo...
Change to RTA – Enforcement of Determination Orders moves from Circuit Court to District Court
Change to RTA – Enforcement of Determination Orders moves from Circuit Court to District Court With Effect from 26th February 2018, the enforcement of RTB Determination Orders has mov...
More changes to Rental Laws
Yet again there are proposals to make changes to the Residential Tenancies Act that will make things more difficult for landlords but do nothing to deal with the key issues currently...
2019 changes to Residential Tenancies Act
Yes, that’s right there are yet more changes on the way for landlords. The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 is currently going through the Dail. A summary of the key element...
Navan & Limerick East made Rent Pressure Zones
Thursday 28th March 2019 According to the latest Rent Index from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), in the October-December period (Q4) of 2018, the standardised national average rent wa...
Government Plan on Housing
The government action plan for housing and homelessness has been published and includes a section on the rental sector. Below some of the report content relevant to the rental market The ren...
