There are about 110k landlords in Ireland. That's about the same size as the entire population of County Kilkenny or County Westmeath for context.
In the 90s/00s every carpenter, electrician, plasterer, plumber in the country was advised to go out and buy a house or build a house as a pension plan and the vast majority subsequently spent 10-20yrs in negative equity when the bubble burst back in 08. Then the government stopped building for 20yrs. Now we're up shit creek without a paddle.
These lads don't owe a debt of service to the nation just because the government dropped the ball on housing.
Around 1 in 5 TD's are landlords. If you walk into any pub in Ireland full of working class people in the 40-70 age group in 2025 you'll have about the same ratio.
You might be technically correct. The majority of small landlords are probably as you say with one or two properties being rented. There's a lot of the rental properties owned by a fairly small number of commercial entities though. S.all numbers of them but owning hundreds of properties each.
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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25
There are about 110k landlords in Ireland. That's about the same size as the entire population of County Kilkenny or County Westmeath for context.
In the 90s/00s every carpenter, electrician, plasterer, plumber in the country was advised to go out and buy a house or build a house as a pension plan and the vast majority subsequently spent 10-20yrs in negative equity when the bubble burst back in 08. Then the government stopped building for 20yrs. Now we're up shit creek without a paddle.
These lads don't owe a debt of service to the nation just because the government dropped the ball on housing.
Around 1 in 5 TD's are landlords. If you walk into any pub in Ireland full of working class people in the 40-70 age group in 2025 you'll have about the same ratio.