Reality of Renting in Ireland | Are students being priced out of the market?

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2 жыл бұрын

With only 800 places to rent in Ireland and most unaffordable for the average renter, how have things gotten so bad and what can be done?
We’ll be discussing this topic with 21 year old college student Mairead Maguire, who only has accommodation sorted for the next two months and then doesn’t know after that, all while working two jobs throughout the summer to make ends meet.
She’ll be joined by Dr Rory Hearne, Assistant Professor in Social Policy in Maynooth University who can provide us with an insight into Ireland’s rental sector and the impact holiday rentals are having.
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@ErnieKings27 2 жыл бұрын

If it is hard for her being Irish imagine if you are a foreigner. I don’t understand why they won’t build more student accommodation or apartments?

@ciarantuomey5408 Жыл бұрын

Go ahead try and build anything if you can

@davidbrown2625 Жыл бұрын

Who's they?

@tireachan6178 Жыл бұрын

Well it is her country, if it's too hard here go study in your own country. Ireland is under pressure and it owes nothing to any foreigners.

@rafaelpeixoto5328 Жыл бұрын

All the government intervention to tackle the accommodation crisis only made it worse. Basic giving/lending more money to people only make prices go up.

@sambhavrajtrehan8602 Жыл бұрын

She moved 7 times in 3 years. Well. Here I am, already moved 4 times in a year

@andrewmellon5072 Жыл бұрын

Supply and demand. Next to no accomadation built for 15 years. Objections to planning permission allowable from people who live the other side of the country from planning application. The population rising by 1000 plus a week,a year after year. Some how the politicians have allowed the state to become responsible, for housing anyone who comes here. Building even if the money is found is expensive, 3 to 4 year delay, assuming labour can be found without getting more outside help, who will have to be found a place to live meantime. It seems to be impossible problem.

@MrVirkMedia Жыл бұрын

It's not the students it's just in general. Me and my wife have been looking for about 6 to 8 months for a place. And yeah it's it's not pretty market

@anthonydoyle7370 Жыл бұрын

It isn't only in the cities that rent is crazy. Down here in Dingle there's not so much as a dog kennel for rent. Unless it's airbnb or holiday let. Almost big city prices too.

@bankai7771 Жыл бұрын

The government anti landlord legislations has lead to drastic reduction of rental stocks exodus of landlords. Rather than helping tenants it's had the opposite effect!

@jgdooley2003 Жыл бұрын

2 years ago I was attacked on line when I predicted the chaos that would ensue when government regulation drove out the one-off landlords and replaced them with REITS and agents with control over 100's, if not 1000's of units and the expertise and power to enforce regulations to the letter without any ability by the average tenant to fight back. Large scale REITS can afford to field a small number of non paying tenants or rule breakers who they will eventually evict. One -off landlords cannot afford to do this and usually lose €1000's when they have to. There is even a case where REIT's are holding units vacant to keep prices high, a totally ridiculous situation.

@davidbrown2625 Жыл бұрын

Finally someone that gets it

@rafaelpeixoto5328 Жыл бұрын

imagine if everyone that wants to buy a house could afford a 500k property, there wouldn't be any property cheaper than that.

@mbb2404 10 ай бұрын

Why are they expecting students to rent when most modules can be done online?

@nicolelochren9560 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if a government official would take on this crisis and start building some dormitories.

@sarahann530 Жыл бұрын

They try to build student accommodation and the locals object .

@IrelandsTrueKing Жыл бұрын

@@sarahann530 so build a village for them and put a college in the village too think big think new think outside the box think outside the cities

@sarahann530 Жыл бұрын

@@IrelandsTrueKing Lots of land around that is private property . Should the govt have the power to confiscate your house so they can build houses for other people ?

@IrelandsTrueKing Жыл бұрын

@@sarahann530 what ? No one is saying that, buy land rezone land use council land its all the peoples land, use it for the people not take land from others.

@sarahann530 Жыл бұрын

@@IrelandsTrueKing Its not all the peoples land ,the majority of it is private property . The local people then have the right to object to any mass development being built in their area . You believe people have the right to object to hundreds of houses being built beside them dont you ?

@IrelandsTrueKing Жыл бұрын

Build new colleges and accommodation in towns not in city's

@suepem Жыл бұрын

The Irish population is growing very fast. That may have a lot to do with it.

@tireachan6178 Жыл бұрын

Yeah "Irish Population" is growing by the bus load every day.

@alexandra6557 Жыл бұрын

@@tireachan6178 you are right. I' ve been there and I could see almost only 30 % irish people in general. I was trying to understand the language and accent better and was difficult because there seemed to be less irish people compared to foreigners.

@thecicerus3615 Жыл бұрын

The Irish real estate market crisis is real ! I lived in Ireland for 5 years and I faced it everyday.

@juandegalesdegales6491 6 ай бұрын

It’s regulation and taxes which has caused this and this “expert” calls for more regulation?

@fidelmavdvdoshea1021 Жыл бұрын

Housing

@eamonncodd4165 Жыл бұрын

Stop Air B&B this will put lots of accommodation back on the market.

@thomasd2796 Жыл бұрын

Stop Airbnb.. which incentivises investment funds to build hotels and take up the limited supply of builders and further inflate material price

@dantro542 Жыл бұрын

You. Are joking

@mimovk 10 ай бұрын

It would solve it but it’ll never happen. Irish politicians work for the rich not the people.

@SlackSlackSlackSlack Жыл бұрын

Why can't they have a law to cap the max % of investment funds can buy from any new built?

@sarahann530 Жыл бұрын

What would that do to help the housing crisis?

@SlackSlackSlackSlack Жыл бұрын

@@sarahann530 people could buy the properties instead of funds and then rent these to students. But overall emergency is to reduce taxes to landlords so more can go to rental market.

@sarahann530 Жыл бұрын

@@SlackSlackSlackSlack Funds are buying them up and renting them to students so that's not the cause of the shortage . People don't want the hassle of buy to let properties the return is not worth the headache .

@robinusher5707 Жыл бұрын

Hearne never grew out of his student politician days, so there's not much more to his optics - hardly useful for the rest of the population.

@IrelandsTrueKing Жыл бұрын

Just build stop talking just build

@sarahann530 Жыл бұрын

Build where and who pays ?

@IrelandsTrueKing Жыл бұрын

@@sarahann530 build everywhere and government pays with the peoples money my money my country my government. My say !!

@sarahann530 Жыл бұрын

@@IrelandsTrueKing Can you explain the process whereby the Govt confiscates land from landowners everywhere so they can build these houses with peoples money ? Why should the taxpayer pay for a house for you to live in ?

@IrelandsTrueKing Жыл бұрын

@@sarahann530 their is obviously lots of land just look around unless u can't see outside Dublin, and what u on about I am a tax payer have been for 45 years and I have my own house . I have a right to say were I think my taxes go sounds like you want yours back or for it to keep getting wasted on Dublin city

@rafaelpeixoto5328 Жыл бұрын

rent controls 😂

@ciarantuomey5408 Жыл бұрын

And less accomodation because they are trying to make money and have no incentive