Tenant-led rent register could show violations of zone caps

Rent pressure zones clearly work. If they didn’t, they would not be generating so much resentment and resistance from landlords and developers

A couple in search of houses to let: rents on properties in rent pressure zones can only go up by 4 per cent a year until 2021 Pic: Bloomberg

Rent pressure zones clearly work. If they didn’t, they would not be generating so much resentment and resistance from landlords and developers.

The latter group includes Bartra Capital which, as this newspaper reported last week, has claimed that its 208-unit co-living building in Dún Laoghaire should not be subject to tenancy regulations, including rent caps.

The courts or the Oireachtas will end up sorting out this row. In the meantime, rents on properties ...