Sherry Fitzgerald: net loss of 43,000 properties in private rental sector

[faketales]

How do SF have such numbers? Extrapolation of what they see or analysis of public data?

I am not really a fan of private companies reports being reported as fact. Daft reports get treated as official figures my much of the media. I know they have a big share of the market but I believe it is falling for rentals as well there is simply no need to advertise on Daft and people are happy to use word of mouth etc.

 

[Purple]

I am not really a fan of private companies reports being reported as fact. Daft reports get treated as official figures my much of the media. I know they have a big share of the market but I believe it is falling for rentals as well there is simply no need to advertise on Daft and people are happy to use word of mouth etc.

I agree. When Daft put up their fees and there was a sudden drop in apartments available to let.

 

[T McGibney]

How do SF have such numbers? Extrapolation of what they see or analysis of public data?

I am not really a fan of private companies reports being reported as fact. Daft reports get treated as official figures my much of the media. I know they have a big share of the market but I believe it is falling for rentals as well there is simply no need to advertise on Daft and people are happy to use word of mouth etc.

There is something of a false conflation here. Sherry Fitzgerald invest considerable resources in research, for example employing the highly regarded economist Marian Finnegan since the mid-1990s. There is a stark difference between the type of research and analysis work that she
directs and the usual media clickbait churned out on foot of Daft and other press releases.

 

[gaelic_oc]

From the Dublin Inquirer article

"A spokesperson for the Central Statistics Office (CSO) said: “The census may include more informal letting arrangements and would generally be completed by the tenant whereas RTB registrations are made by the landlord.”

Based on this, I'll conjecture that the gray market for housing has been growing steadily, hence the increasing discrepancy between CSO and RTB figures.