Sick of this country

Landlords are selling up because they can make money. Property prices are sky high.

Landlords use their second property as an investment. They expect a return on investment. If they can get that faster and easier through selling, then they will.

BTW, I'm not demonizing landlords. I fully understand that if the value of your commodity is high, you sell. Why wouldn't they.

I had a landlord back in the early 90's just as the housing boom started. He sold up and said "Sorry lads. I bought this house a few years ago for 40k. I can sell it now for 48k. That's a massive percentage increase and I'd be stupid not to take it. These prices can't keep going up"

I laugh about it because of the last part. Prices did keep going up. But still it made sense to sell. That was a 20% increase in a few years. That's a fantastic return on investment.

Likewise landlords today are selling up because they can make a profit right now and it involves less work.

Councils and housing charities are hoovering far more ex rentals than FTBs from what ive experienced and what ive seen of others i know who have recently sold rentals. The councils are all in and bidding o everything that comes up.

Could you post that article please?

From what I've read it's council and housing charities-and definitely in Kerry, it's council and housing charities. There is the exception of hotels etc buying B&B's and two new apartment blocks along with some ex-rental properties, they are buying these for staff. So I guess, in a way, they are definitely helping, especially since many of their staff would be on minimum or close to minimum wage.

Those who are disgusted with FF & FG should think carefully before voting for SF. Lest I be misunderstood, I share their disgust of FF & FG, it`s just that I believe SF would be even worse because of the things they are saying. For example, SF is talking about helping renters. I wonder if it has occured to SF that people might be more interested in becoming home owners than being "helped" to go on living in someone else`s house. Also, SF think those with mortgages should also be helped. Has SF forgetten that we just borrowed 200 billion euro sinse 2008 to help prop up defaulting mortgage holders, bail out banks and inflate the housing stock in this country. Was the 200 billion not enough? Who does SF think should service that debt? People priced out of the housing market it was used to inflate?

So who should we vote for if not FF, FG or SF? I will be looking for a party that is concerned about fiat currency and the problems caused by it. Politicians who dismiss fiat currency as an issue, do not understand the problem and can therefore not do anything to resolve it. Ireland does have such a party but to avoid currying favor, I will not mention it. Besides, a lot of people hate them (for reasons that are not clear to me). Well okay, mainstream parties and their supporters say this party is far right and they worry the mess they made will result in more people voting for this so-called far right party. To me, this party is just stolic. They are conservative and to glass-half-empty types, conservative is bad because they cannot see what has been, as good. If on the other hand you see what was good about the past, you will be better able to embrace the best of the past with the best of today and distinguish it from what is not good and rejectable about today.

I think if we had this exact same government for another 5 years we'd probably have something approaching a functional developed country. Unlike previous governments this one actually has taken steps to improving long term legacy issues, natuonal debt, health, housing and public transport all have some plans in motion and you can actually see improvements, although progress is slow. Previous governments just avoided those topics.

Immigration is only starting to become a hot topic after 3 separate high profile migrant stabbing incidents in the space of 18 months, and you can see the governments language is starting to turn on that as in mainland Europe, so I'd expect a reasonable immigration policy to follow. EU policy has recently been changed in favour of speedy repatriations.

Australia has similar problems to Ireland in many ways even though they have a more sensible approach to immigration, still Sydney is no stranger to islamic stabbings.

yeah, he would still be defeated hugely.

23% of a tiny amount voted for him in the presidential election but 77% didn't.

he would promise whatever but would just wreck the country like his like always do wherever they get elected.

america, the UK, hungary ETC.

Would ya ever feck off and stop messing. This Government have been in power for ages now and housing, health and a rake of other stuff is heading in the wrong direction. Their idea for housing is to pluck numbers for new builds out of their hole. The HSE is in a jock, absolutely falling asunder.

Not a chance I'll vote for any of this shower. I'm not too happy with the alternative but the current crowd need a reality check.

Over the last 50 years no government have managed to reform the heath service. I doubt if any government ever will. Having said that when you get into the system outcomes are usually very good.

Virtually 30knew units this year and probably 33-35 next year.as well the refurbishment grant will probably add another 2-3k units to the total

The government did not improve the health service during covid. If a world wide pandemic is not enough motivation to improve things it is clear that the government will not and don’t want to improve the health service. That is off the table. If we are hit with another pandemic we will be in the same boat as the start of covid.

Principal of my kids’ primary school retired four/five years ago. Absolute nutcase she was but brilliant with kids and forced into retirement despite her trying to stay on. She’s at death’s door at the moment so maybe it’s true.