There has been an increase in the supply of properties available for rent this month due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Students at another university in Ireland have joined the protests demanding the reversal of rent increases in on-campus accommodation.

Up to 100 students at UCD have held a protest over prospective rent hikes on the college campus.

A woman who made her landlords’ lives an “utter misery” has had her five year sentence for forgery and criminal damage cut to two years by the Court of Appeal.

The cost of heating a home ballooned by 17% in November, compared to the same month last year, while it was 7% more expensive to rent one’s home, new figures from the CSO show.

Housing groups have said the current rental situation is "unsustainable" after the latest report showed rents rose nationwide by an average of 11.3% in the year to last September.

Residents of an apartment block in Cork city who have been served eviction notices so that their rental properties can undergo a €3m refurbishment say that they have been left with little choice but to live on a building site.

Latest: The Government is being asked to introduce Rent Pressure Zones nationwide in a bid to tackle the housing crisis.

Cork County Council has promised to look into hardship cases after a new rent system introduced for its tenants saw an 80-year-old man’s rent double overnight.

The deepening housing crisis could be heading for a perfect storm, with one new report showing record high rents and plummeting stock, and another report projecting a 20% rise in house prices in the next three years.

The average rent nationwide is at an all-time high of €1131 per month.

The cost of retail rents in Dublin is expected to rise by 8% this year.

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Private landlords’ group the Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA) has been reprimanded by the competition regulator over a press release and a meeting where it discussed levying new charges for tenants in response to government plans for rent controls.

The cost of rent in some prime shopping locations has already risen by more than a third over the last three years.

Question: Can you briefly set out what legislation you, in government, would put forward to address the ongoing housing crisis and in particular the issues of homelessness, rising rents and the inability to get started on the housing ladder.

The latest report from Daft.ie shows rents are rising fastest in cities outside Dublin - with a 15.4% jump in Cork.

The Environment Minister Alan Kelly has announced a series of reforms to the private rental sector to provide rent certainty for tenants and landlords.

A Labour minister has reignited the war of words within the Coalition over rent control, as a solution to the crisis has yet to be found.

Rents are rising faster in cities outside Dublin for the first time in years, latest figures show.

Homelessness charities and student unions have warned about a rental housing crisis in Ireland as a new survey confirmed huge shortages are sending costs soaring, with rents now rising at a faster pace in major cities such as Cork, Galway and Limerick than in the capital.