Govt to do 'everything' to prevent evictions - McEntee

Yurt2, I'd like to think your analysis vis-a-vis Council's stepping in to pick up bargains would be accurate but I fear it would not be. I reckon that Councils will try to open up their unlimited public money pot and prop up the market. (We have the not-too-long-ago example of the politician who sold the house to the Council in 2018 at a level that no similar house sale in that area has matched in the intervening years)

I saw the Council in my own area pushing up the prices of both residential and agricultural land during the mid-2000's. Crazy money was being paid and everyone else was being outbid by those spending other people's money with no consequences, accountability or responsibility taken.

So let's say I lease a product off you. It means I have possession of that product and you just can't go ang get it as I have rights

Asking sorry about omitting the ? I suppose but I thought it be self explanation who wants to debate 🤔

A rent control of 2% and the sheer inefficiency and incompetence of the RTB are an invitation and encourage to anyone who wishes to work outside the mess of state regulation. There are enough people who have saved and who might be buying in areas where prices never really change that much, say an older part of Dublin, who would grab for anything decent available. Not all mortgage buyers are stretched beyond breaking by interest rate rises. The essential point is it seems an extraordinarily ill designed regulatory system. The rents have shot up through supply constraints it has created, as few enough will be insane enough to rent out a house while a parent is in a nursing home. One bad tenant aided by Threshold can sit it out for ages. Simpler forms of rental units were removed and new social units are substantially built via inefficient quangos or charities. It's not that Larry the landlord feels a dose of stress, it's more that the utterly limited supply makes rents so high and supply so limited, even if supply will fall a bit now. They aren't going to fall much thanks to the 2% rent control which removes any incentive towards flexibility. The older rental tenancies acts did constrain investment, but at least there were a lot of shabby flats available. Shabby flats are better than no flats or a pal's couch.

No if I have a property (which i do not), it is still mine I am allowing you by Contract under certain conditions to live there. So no I am not taking something from you I am taking my property back. He'll by you definition if I leased you a car and you stopped baying it I be removing you from the car. Its my property not yours

The home stronger that ownership is unconstitutional it would require a referendum.

The previous eviction ban was tied to the 5km movement restriction

So a new eviction ban will probably use some temporary exsisting and anyone who tries to challenge will have to have big funds so it is not democratic.

Comes with a social risk premium for higher lending and rental rates on the middle class as an extra stealth tax.

Keeping the SW majority of voters onside wins elections

Oke dokey. There should be no issues then...... I wonder what all the people giving out are giving out about then. Given that things work the way you have imagined them to work!!!!!

(The above kind of posts remind me of those lads who arrive in court and ask the judge about his "Oath" or his hat and confidently explain why the court does not have jurisdiction over them)

Oke dokey Timmy.

The only question remains as to why you are on here arguing with yourself then? If things work the way you imagine them to, then there should be no issues for you to be moaning about - should there?

You are arguing about a problem that might hypothetically arise, and then "proving" why it cannot arise.

I'm arguing with people who believe that an eviction ban will separate the wheat from the chaff, when in reality it will be like pouring salt all over the earth.

It fundamentally breaks the market for lettings in this country if brought in - but sure its all de evil landlords making money hand over fist (yet exiting the market at the fastest rate in decades - go figure)

Well tenants have rights too. Some might abuse those rights but they exist for good reason. That's the price for protecting the vulnerable ones. And the general concepts are known in advance (or should be) even if they are tweaked over time.

The government has failed miserably to provide housing and are now preventing the sale of private property to provide housing to avoid a political fallout, simple as. Similar to the banking crisis, where taxpayer money was seized to guarantee the debts of the banks. As Leo is pointing out, this is just storing up these termination notices in the system, but they will wait for the interest hike driven price drop to stop landlords exiting. Listening to the FF minister going on about social housing coming on line and this just being temporary - LOL. They are out to save their necks from the political fallout of the build up of landlords selling their properties after the Covid moratorium, because they know they will be out of a job come the next election. They will drag this moratorium out to the next election or housing correction whichever happens first. They'd do literally anything to save their own skin. Interesting times!

Yes, they are and the FF minister admitted as much, however not to worry as it's only temporary.

This has nothing to do with contracts, they are overriding any contracts or any tenant law.