Housing

Tenants facing eviction will have legal right to buy from their landlords

Landlords selling properties will have to first offer them to existing tenants and sell to them if they match an independent sale price valuation

The government is introducing a package of measures to ease the impact on tenants of its decision to end the ban on evictions. Picture: Getty

Tenants facing eviction will have the legal right to buy from their landlords if they match an independent valuation, under new plans. The measure is to be introduced by the government as part of its package to ease the impact of the ending of the ban on evictions at the end of the month.

Darragh O’Brien, the Minister for Housing, said he wanted to allow tenants to buy the property they were living in while ...