There was a drop of more than 20,000 in the number of private tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) last year as landlords continued...
A landlord who carried out a “black bag eviction” of a father and his preschool-aged daughter has been ordered to pay €5,000 in damages by a...
A landlord who slept in an apartment without the permission of his tenant on numerous occasions and began a “reign of harassment” when she asked him...
:quality(70):focal(805x562:815x572)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IB3DO2TKSVHGJH6MFE6UAEDEZQ "Judge gives landlord Marc Godart nine days to pay more than €13,000 in damages to two former tenants")
A judge has given Luxembourg landlord Marc Godart nine days to pay more than €13,000 in damages to two of his former Dublin tenants. Judge Marie...
:quality(70):focal(362x139:372x149)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7RXHBFA6GBGPDPKBEYCD6H4SJY.jpg "WRC orders firm linked to landlord Marc Godart to pay €2,000 compensation to former worker")
A rental company linked to controversial landlord Marc Godart has been ordered by the Workplace Relations Commission to pay €2,000 in compensation to a former worker...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ZJSOHZPORRCJBLLGOOACO6YFBA.jpg "Irish renters living in fear: ‘I’m working in a Government job, and I feel so abandoned’")
Many of Ireland’s renters are living in fear that one change in circumstance could leave them homeless overnight. The main reason people contact homelessness-prevention organisation Threshold...
:quality(70):focal(2470x814:2480x824)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PZXS2FQC7VGJVAL5ECIXKIJ45Q.jpg "Landlord who threatened to take tenant ‘by the head’ and remove her from property ordered to pay €17,500")
A landlord who threatened to take his tenant “by the head” and remove her from a property “if necessary” has been ordered to pay €17,500 in...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/D7J25XAYCRBLNMZK7C2EWA4DIM.jpg "Marc Godart firm agrees to pay €15,400 awards to unlawfully evicted tenant")
A company operated by landlord Marc Godart has agreed to find funds to pay an unlawfully evicted tenant the €15,433 it owes as awards from the...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YK6MI4FCCROSHJBZW7BZJZPFC4.JPG "Overheard: Developer Paddy Kelly suffers again, this time with the RTB’s maximum €60,000 rent arrears bill")
In 2009 the property developer Paddy Kelly had to move out of his swanky Shrewsbury Road home after he ran up debts of €350 million. As...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4GORCJKS6QWAZMACRBE7RESXXI.jpg "Landlady to pay more than €10,000 to tenants over unlawful ‘aggressive’ eviction from Cork house")
A landlady has been ordered to pay more than €10,000 to two tenants, a male student and a female worker, over their unlawful sudden and “aggressive”...
:quality(70):focal(359x127:369x137)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/7RXHBFA6GBGPDPKBEYCD6H4SJY.jpg "Company linked to Marc Godart loses appeal over termination of its tenancy of Dublin property")
A company linked to landlord Marc Godart has lost an appeal over the validity of a notice terminating its tenancy of a Dublin property on grounds...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OAM557WQURAFZEKSBP6MYXLHWI.jpg "Landlord must pay tenant €11,654 over excess rent for apartment in Dublin rent pressure zone")
A man who lived in a tent for four years before getting an apartment in a north Dublin rent pressure zone is entitled to recover €11,654...