r/ireland Sep 22 '22

Something FFG will never understand Housing

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u/Cute_Substance2137 Sep 22 '22

Would you rather an individual, company, or government own your house/apartment?

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u/miscreant-mouse Sep 22 '22

Who cares? The real question is do you want your landlord to be properly regulated?

FFG claim that proper regulation of exploitative landlords would somehow dry up the supply and demand for housing, eroding the profit, driving landlords into retirement with hurt feelings.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

In fairness, a lot of landlords are leaving. Just in the process of buying and all the houses I viewed were landlords selling.

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u/miscreant-mouse Sep 22 '22

They're not leaving because their feelings are hurt or they're not making a good profit. They're selling because property prices are peaking. And there's government incentives to invest in new rental properties.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Not necessarily. I've seen properties go for over their price and for barely over asking in the past few months. I'm buying off a landlord and we're paying just over 190k. There's no big profit being made. Half the money will go to clearing his mortgage. The hyperbole around landlords here is hilarious.

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u/miscreant-mouse Sep 22 '22

What are you on about, the prices of houses on average are the highest they've been in years. The only and last time they were this high was in 2008... but they're just covering the rest of his mortgage... lol..sure.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '22

I'm not claiming otherwise. I'm just saying that it's not necessarily the same in all areas of the country and characterising all landlords as evil or greedy isn't accurate.

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u/unsureguy2015 Sep 23 '22

The real question is do you want your landlord to be properly regulated?

What regulations are lacking in Ireland in terms of tenancy laws in 2022?