The Residential Tenancies Board was powerless to sanction landlords who made 17 families homeless, despite ‘improper conduct’, it has emerged. More than a year after the Irish Daily Mail first revealed that the RTB was concerned about its lack of powers and need for ‘structural change’, reform has yet to take place. The cases –
Load new posts Total Covid-19 cases View charts and maps World Confirmed 95,473,257 Deaths 2,037,824 Updated at 1/20/2021, 5:12:29 PM BST 1/19/2021, 12:17:04 AM News you might have missed More than 4m people across the UK have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, health secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday. New York Governor
Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin says rent increases should be banned for an ’emergency period’ of three years to let people’s incomes ‘catch up’ with rents. He suggests rent pressure zones haven’t worked, so a freeze is now needed as rents remain too high. Rent pressure zones have been in place since 2017, and now
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CSO median house price: €249,500 2021 prediction: up 5% Median house prices in Cork city were at their highest in a decade, pushed up by stock shortages and strong demand. First-time buyers dominated the market, as the help-to-buy scheme proved irresistible to those who had been renting. Rents remain high, despite the city being in
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin accused Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald of engaging in “propagandistic” language over the Government’s €3.3 billion budget allocation for housing. Mr Martin insisted that housing was the Government’s number one priority and it aimed to give funding to local authorities and approved bodies to build social and affordable homes in the
Dunworley’s inclusion in a Rent Pressure Zone a ‘farce’ Southern Star Newspaper
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It is easy to get caught up in the madness of crowds. This page found itself in a toy shop exactly a week ago after hearing reports of parents panic-buying toys. Once the on-the-scene reporting was done and dusted, the page found itself panic-buying toys and, before anyone could say, “There are still 81 sleeps
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The Government’s new protections for renters whose earnings are affected by Covid-19 will assist only a tiny minority of tenants, new figures suggest. Just 159 people have applied for the scheme that safeguards certain renters against eviction and rent increases until next January. The scheme, which came into effect on August 1, replaced the blanket
Irish think-tank argues Covid-19 response requires planning re-set Key planning policies encouraging high-density development and urban flats may have to be rethought because of the impact of Covid-19 on the property market, according to a report published by Ireland’s Economic & Social Research Institute. The Planner Dublin bus network redesign shapes up The final version
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Agent Lisney is guiding a price of €5.5 million for a major mixed-use investment with significant asset management potential in Midleton, Co Cork. Located to the west of Main Street and close to the Market Green Shopping Centre, the development is bookended by both an Aldi and a Lidl store (which do not form part