Matt Cooper had Irish Mortgage Brokers on ‘The Last Word’ to discuss some changes announced by Simon Coveney regarding rent controls in Dublin and Cork.
The piece focused on some of the issues at hand with a commentator from the Dublin Tenants Association also taking part.
We were please to be asked on to Primetime in RTE to discuss the new rent control (rent predictability) measures announced today by the Minister of Housing.
If you support the idea of a policy intervention on prices then this plan is a ‘middle of the road’ approach, which is about as good as you can hope for.
Pat Kenny had Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers on his show to discuss ‘rent certainty’ and some aspects of construction as well as why they are both concerns for the Irish housing market.
The issues are important for both sides, prices affect different sides of a contract differently and large swings can be damaging to one or the other of them. The answer in Karl’s view is longer leases which requires no legal changes, but this is not being discussed.
We took part in a studio debate on PrimeTime with Claire Byrne about rent control. In favour there was Labour Senator and Chairperson of Threshold, Aideen Hayden, from our firm there was Karl Deeter. It was a reasoned debate that pointed out several arguments both for and against.