M10News: Housing, Rental Markets & Policy

Dublin City Council’s Housing Strategic Policy Committee has backed a motion calling for the reversal of rent increases introduced for council and other social housing tenants earlier this year. The motion, proposed by People Before Profit councillor Conor Reddy, passed by 11 votes to eight at the committee and comes as councillors prepare for the

Ireland’s national rent-control system introduced on 1 March 2026 limits most rent increases during a tenancy, but landlords can still reset a rent to market level in specific circumstances. The rules replaced the previous Rent Pressure Zone system with a national framework covering private tenancies across Ireland. For most private tenancies, rent can be increased

The UK’s private rental market is entering a period of significant change, but the latest figures on small landlords leaving the sector need to be read more carefully than the headline numbers suggest. An estimated 30,000 small buy-to-let landlords are reported to have disappeared from the market in the year to April 2025, according to

Rents paid by people entering new tenancies rose sharply in the first three months of 2026, with the average monthly rent reaching €1,839 as Ireland’s new rental rules came into effect The latest analysis of Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) data shows that rents for new tenancies increased by 9.1% year-on-year in the first quarter. That

More than half of landlords surveyed by property group LRG say they are now more likely to ask prospective tenants for a guarantor when they do not comfortably meet affordability checks. The finding comes from LRG’s Summer 2026 Lettings Report, which surveyed 717 landlords and 860 tenants across England and Wales. It provides an early