Faced with the prospect of rent rises, council tenants banded together to resist. CATU wants to hear from anyone who was involved back then.
Tag: renting
Posted inUnreal Estate
No Homes Yet in Dublin City from Key Funding Scheme for Affordable Rentals
None of the second round of affordable rental homes funded with help from the government’s Cost Rental Equity Loan scheme will be in the city. None of the first were either.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Planning Regulator Points to Way Dublin City Council May Be Able to Curb Build-to-Rent Developments
“The near-total dominance of this typology has adverse long-term consequences for the creation of sustainable communities,” council chief Owen Keegan has said.
Posted inFingal, Unreal Estate
A Dublin man battles against one of the city’s new leviathan corporate landlords
In his efforts to make sure his apartment complex in Swords is secure and maintained, he’s up against a Cypriot subsidiary of a fund with more than half-a-billion euro worth of property in Ireland.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Landlord Fined for Breaches of Rent-Increase Limits at 11 Properties in Dublin
The Residential Tenancies Board has published the names of landlords it has fined or cautioned for breaking laws governing rental homes, including Propmaster Ventures.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Despite Cap, in Some Areas of City Rents Grew More Than 12 Percent in a Year (While in Others They Dropped)
How much of the big increases were legal?
Posted inCity Desk
Tenants Find They Can’t Take Their Landlords to the RTB Because They Can’t Find Them
Nobody knows how many cases are stymied when neither the tenant nor the Residential Tenancies Board can track down a landlord.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Tenants Ask When Council Will Be Back Inspecting Rental Homes In Real Life
In March 2020 last year the council switched to “virtual” inspections, done by sending a checklist to landlords and double-checking with tenants.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Landlords Adding Extra Charges On Top of Rents, Avoiding Laws That Restrict Rent Increases
Car-parking fees and service charges are why it looks like rents have gone up 59–85 percent in less than four years in some apartments in the south inner-city.
Posted inUnreal Estate
Help Us Report: A Quick Survey for Dublin Renters
Have you moved homes since December 2016? We’re working on a story about changes in rent levels between tenancies, and – if you have a few minutes to spare – we’d really appreciate your help.