Why do Landlords feel entitled to rent increases?

They really don’t. A “right” indicates that it is an entitlement, no such entitlement exists.

The only thing that will drive rents down is an increase in the supply of houses.

Putting caps on rent will cause some landlords to sell their properties thus reducing the stock of rental houses - with the effect that it will push up prices further.

The only solution is more housing becoming available, and that won't happen with a swish of a magic wand.

Housing Policy from FF/FG has us in the situation we are in today. Not LL, Not Tenants .

Take these issues up with your FF/FG public representative as FF/FG got us to this point with their housing Policies. No other party besides FF/FG have had their housing policies implemented.

This is either by design or neglect but whatever way you look at it FF/FG have their stamp of approval all over it.

Well the background to this is the property crash that bankrupted the country and the banks, and killed off construction for years. There's only one party responsible for that. The last decade has been a recovery from that.

To ignore history is to learn nothing.

I'm not going to argue legalism with people on the internet. I can agree that the term right is over used and no universal entitlements to housing or food enshrined in Irish law. Happy? As concepts and laws these rights do exists for example under the UNCRC without being legislated for in Ireland. Effectively people do have these entitlements in Ireland.

Somewhat missing the point however, that just because something is a basic need or entitlement doesn't mean you're entitled to have it provided for on your own terms by private citizens.

No it wasn't it was too dependent on property related taxes. The economy in general was dependent on property to much as we were pushing exporting businesses to the wall with wage rates. As well we had a bloated PS.

Dav010, I think you've missed the point, there is no right to housing nor food in this Irish constitution and these rights have not been enshrined in Ireland law. As per my post. Rights are not the same as entitlements and just because these rights are enacted as specific entitlements else where in Europe a d under various UN articles doesn't mean we have them in Ireland. We didn't sign up to the right to housing under the European social charter, other countries did. These rights exist. Again I need to stress that private landlords are no responsible for upholding these rights and entitlements, the state is.

I would suggest the country was not fine. Massive property inflation, conspicuous expenditure etc. etc.

People were behaving pretty recklessly with money. Which is not to excuse the idiocy of the banks.

The Law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the Common

But leaves the greater villain loose

Who steals the Common from the goose.

The Law says that we must atone

If we take things we do not own.

But leaves the Lords and Ladies fine

Who take things that are yours and mine.

The Law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the Common.

And geese will still a Common lack........

..until they go and steal it back!!

Young?

Get your facts right 😋😀😋

This is so true. What was designed to protect renters by the government has resulted in LL raising the rent by the maximum each year.

Just throwing this out there as well as I got distracted by arguments over rights abuses, last week I saw Rebecca Moynihan of Labour bringing forward a right to opt for unfurnished home. Guess who has to pay for transport and storage of furniture between tenancies?. @jo187 if this was law tomorrow, would you feel entitled to exercise your rights as a tenant? Would you factor in whether or not your landlord could cover the cost of transport and storage?

I was renting back in 2010, we'ed settle on a nice house in Kildare but the decor was dated. I was chatting to someone and mentioned the wardrobes where ugly as sin and she advised I demand the landlord modernize them, her logic was that I had them over a barrel and it wasn't like they where going to get better tenants in the middle of a recession. I was taken completely aback at the casual sense of entitlement the "**** them it's a business" attitude. This time last year I couldn't rent our my property, the market had collapsed briefly. It took two months to get new tenants in, one couple who turned up wanted a new kitchen installed though there was nothing wrong with the existing kitchen other than being dated.

@jo187 when you first rented did you say to yourself, "I can pay more, I wonder if the land lord needs a little extra"? Did you factor in your landlords expenses every, did you ever put them first? Of course not. At the start of lockdown I saw numerous colleagues just walk out of leases without the full notice period and move. No one is going to pay more than they have to, no one is going to charge less than they can. The Irish times published details last week that half of all landlords have revenue of less than 10K per year. I'm an accidental landlord, I would never deliberately invest in a rental property. If I'd cashed out and put the value of the house in an ETF I would have made about 5 times the yearly after tax return I currently have.

Exactly, wont this new right that is supposed to help tenants just result in beds, couches, mattresses etc not being provided? Wouldn't most tenants prefer not to have the expense forced on them? They talk about bringing us into line with europe but friends told me in Berlin you rent apartments without even a kitchen and you have to supply everything.

So FFG are being influenced by SF.

Who knew.

its this simple, we are in this situation because of supply, and successive governments have not planned for nor implemented plans that satisfy that demand. Their current plan housing for all is doomed to failure because we simply dont have the labour force to meet the targets that they have set, targets which are also set to low and wouldn't solve the problem even if they were met, and they wont be.