Hibernia Reit, the country’s largest stockmarket-listed office landlord, still has “the firepower” to make further significant acquisitions in Dublin, but has all but ruled itself out in pitching for rival Green Reit which had put itself up for sale.

Leo Varadkar says it is wrong to demonise landlords for the problems in the housing sector.

A landlord who refused to allow a struggling family pay a portion of their rent through rent allowance for 15 months has been ordered to pay them €14,000 in compensation.

A system involving thousands of euro in legal costs for a short court hearing of a landlord’s appeal over a €910 award by the Residential Tenancies Board to a tenant "defies all logic" and is not a proper use of public funds, a High Court judge has said.

People who are being harassed by their landlord are being encouraged to ask the Residential Tenancies Board for help.

Revenue have updated their tax manual dealing with rents paid to foreign-resident landlords, with the gist of the rules remaining as they have been for many decades.

One of the country’s largest private housing landlords is charging rents of between €1,111 and €2,600 a month for its apartments.

Three-quarters of complaints about rent reviews are resolved in favour of the tenants.

Landlords have been ordered to retract threats to impose charges on tenants as a direct result of the Government's rent control measures.

The Bank of England has recommended tighter lending criteria for buy-to-let mortgages and it is monitoring for signs that risks are accelerating.

An injunction preventing the new landlord of a Dublin city centre hotel from taking possession of the premises in a dispute over rent has been granted by the High Court.

The boom in Australian buy-to-let mortgages that has helped fuel record household borrowing could be the next driver of bank bad debts rather than corporate defaults.

Would a conscience clause allow a landlord to refuse to rent to a gay person - or to a Muslim - or an unbaptised individual?