Changes to rent controls announced - thread for clarifying

@Broadcaster you can only increase the rent to market if you rent after 1 March. If you rent before that, the lease will be covered by the old rules and you will be renting at your current rate plus whatever increase you are entitled to under the RPZ rules. Keep in mind though that if you are a small landlord, for a post 1 March lease (which you have to have to increase the rent to market) your tenant will be in place for 6 years (unless hardship or the limited family need apply).

Now that you have vacant possession, it is a good idea to look at the entire of the new rules (there are many threads on here as to the risks and traps) and decide whether you want to continue or not. If you are thinking of selling, once you rent post 1 March, you may not get a chance to do so for 6 years.
 
This thread is very unwieldy as it covers so much.

Would anyone like to take a particular issue and summarise the contents in a fresh new thread?

For example, "When can a landlord reset the rent to market rate?"
 
Actually property prices will be affected by this. If you work off rent by the 12 or 15 rule. Talking to a sibling landlord today, who never increases their sitting tenants rents, now they will do so as you are only devaluing your own property. That used to be the case for me too, but now I’ll be going with the 2% annually, plus starting at market rent.

If you can’t search the RTB anymore by address, how can landlords know market rents? How can we prove we are not above market rent? In any case market rent is whatever a tenant will pay.
 
Bronte said:
How can we summarise anything when it’s not law yet.
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you may as well ask why we bother discussing it at all so?

You can summarise what we know about it.

Key Post - Summarising the rules for small landlords with existing tenancies

I am not a landlord so I have no practical experience of these rules. I am happy to be corrected on the existing rules or the proposed rules. Caveat: The legislation has not been published yet, so this summary is based on the press statement and comments from government. The proposed changes...
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Key Post - Summary of the rules for terminating tenancies

I am trying to create a full table with the rules. Subject to change/correction obviously. Use at your own risk :) DateNo Fault < 6 monthsNo Fault AnytimeNo Fault End of 6 year cycleFault Anytime Until 10 June 2022 (Ends after 6 years, auto-renews with new rules at the time of renewal)No...
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Wavelly said:
Currently they have to offer properties at least 25% below market rent. A 2 bed cost rental recently was advertised in my town for EUR1650, which with a 25% discount would equate to a market rate of EUR2200 (which currently looks about right for the few full price rental properties I see advertised on Daft).
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I was thinking along similar lines. Taking your scenario for example purposes, a landlord entitled to reset the rent to "market rates" should be entitled to set a rent of EUR2200. On the other hand, I can foresee the RTB's "market rate register" (in whatever form that takes) mandating rent levels that are inconsistent (i.e. lower) with such examples. We may see a lot of cases going to the RTB over whether a "market rate" set by a landlord is justified. Rental properties vary wildly in quality and spec, they are not commodity products, so - to me at least - the concept of fixing a market rate (or more likely a range, unless a very wide range is permitted) for any individual property is impossible. Even more so in areas where rental properties are scarce.
 
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I posted earlier in this thread (Aug 2025) wondering if I should sell my single rental property or not. Anyway...after reading about all of the uncertainty around rent controls, etc. I decided to sell up. I did wonder for a while if I was doing the right thing - but now that it is done I'm happy to be out. Best of luck to the rest of you navigating this over the next few years!
 
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