A big overhaul of the State’s private rental rules came into force at the beginning of this month. Photograph: iStockEviction notices increased by a fifth last year, with 20,033 tenants told to leave their homes, new data from the national rental oversight body shows. Steen said eviction notices, though rising, represent a “small figure” in the overall context of the rental market, which grew last year by 2.5 per cent. “A small cohort of the small landlord group have decided they wish to exit [the market]. “The sector is changing,” he said, adding that a rise in private landlord tenancies can be attributed in part to new large landlord stock coming on stream in Dublin.

Source: The Irish Times March 19, 2026 15:11 UTC