Excellent article on how important small landlords are and how screwing them over hasn't worked

I know a few small landlords and not one is a member of the Ipoa. If the IPOA were involved in lobbying to prevent more rental units, it doesn't look like they were very successful.

New build-to-rent developments has brought thousands of new rentals to the market in the past few years and a few small landlords buying a one-off couldn't compete with the big players and deep pockets of foreign investors and pension funds. No amount of lobbying would have stopped those developments as huge numbers of properties are needed for the increased population.

Small landlords are going the way of the corner shop.

I don't think small LLs are competing with large landlords in anyway. The vast majority only have one or two properties they are not growing a portfolio of properties. But the current legislative and tax regime massively favors economy of scale to make it viable.

Whilst it wasn't my original point, there is evidence of the government moving against increased investment in the rental market.

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While you can never say whether a particular lobbying effort has been successful, this change in government policy would very much be in line with the aims of that representative body mentioned earlier.

Are you really finding all this hard to believe? From their website:

It is the first item on their list of things the representative body provide for members. I have already provided links that show that they are communicating with Oireachtas members arguing that the big danger is oversupply in the market due to these funds. Then I provided a link to an article where government are planning to limit the impact of such funds. I can't prove that one is linked to the other. That is never possible with lobbying.

Look, I'm not against small landlords but my view is that the tenant will benefit from greater number of units introduced to the market. This is very understandably opposed by existing small landlords and it looks like things are going their way with regard to government policy. I would argue that this is against the interest of the tenant whose choice is being limited but there you are.

They can lobby all they want. They are completely detached from reality. They've never had any influence. In my opinion not even with landlords. If the govt decide to do anything with large investment landlords. It will be for political reasons nothing to do with small LLs or any lobbying.

Tenants and REITs have got everything they've asked for, for many years. The market is exactly what they asked for. That's been the only successful lobbying.

https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/property-mortgages/why-flood-of-supply-to-housing-market-by-private-landlords-is-a-concern-for-rental-sector-41793124.html

Because there's enough in the introduction of the piece, which is freely viewable from the link i posted, to make the point imho.

Here it is FYI:

Why flood of supply to housing market by private landlords is a concern for rental sector

One third of properties for sale in some locations comes from landlords. Photo: RollingNews.ie

Mark Keenan

June 27 2022 02:30 AM

While a cooling of the rate of house price inflation is generally to be welcomed, the flood of supply to the market of properties brought for sale largely by small private landlords, and its impact on property inflation in many areas, is in fact a cause for concern.

Because these are the people whose properties are supplying house shares and apartment lets at the cheaper end of the rental market......

good point. But in effect the cheap rental (small LL) are leaving and not being replaced and this leads to a percenage deplacement adding to to housing crisis

Small landlords are going. The current attempts to assist tenants who lose out as a result are making things worse. If the tenant of a small LL moves out now, the LL will think twice about offering the property for letting again. Many will sell and rid themselves of the hassle.

According to Daft since 2017 there are 17k less tenancies. And it continuing to decline. As well 7k LL have left the market. That is a glaring statics. When you consider that in the same period that Reits have probably put 5k+ properties into the rental market smaller LL are hemorrhaging at an astonishing rate

I wonder if the latest changes will make a few more think of leaving...

Longer notice periods and extra paperwork that small landlords need to be aware of if they are issuing a notice of termination for any reason, eg, anti-social behaviour, rent arrears, selling etc. From 6th July, the RTB require a Notice of Termination Return Form sent on the same day as the notice is issued to tenants, or the notice will be INVALID.

If professional landlords means less of the dodgy small guys, that's not a bad thing. I don't see how it will make renting cheaper though, the big professional landlord organisations charge high rents (in Dublin at least, no idea about the rest of the country). On the one hand, individual landlords are treated like a business and expected to keep up to date with constant changes to legislation (which is normal for all business sectors) but, OTOH, they are not taxed like other businesses.

I'm not a landlord but know a few, and the government seem to regularly sneak in changes that affect landlords without much notice. The tenant charities like Threshold or Focus have information before the RTB put it on their website. The latest changes for example, it was difficult enough to find, I looked at the RTA, Planning, and a few other places and eventually found it in new legislation for builders. It's like the government didn't want small landlords to know about it...

No issue notice of termination now. You give the termination date as the end of the lease period or the statutory notice period.

I think you need to change the registration of the lease into your name with the RTB. When issuing the notice make sure to follow RTB rules.

Look up there website

Small landlords "supply housing" in the same way that English absentee landlords supplied land in the 19th century.

Namely they just take already existing supply out of your reach and then rent it back to you.

He should confirm.it with the RTB, but the rent review term applies to the actual date the rent is reviewed ( changed) you an serve it before that date.

If he cannot give notice u til after the 12 months it's a 180 day notice period