Rent Pressure Zones 'performing well', insists head of Residential Tenancies Board

Residential Tenancies Board CEO Rosemary Steen made her comments at the launch of the RTB’s latest update for the third quarter of 2024, where  data shows that the number of both tenancies and landlords rose in the year to the end of 2024. File photo: Gareth Chaney

The head of the Residential Tenancies Board has insisted that Rent Pressure Zones are “performing well”, but said any decision to do away with the system is a “matter for Government” alone.

The future of the RPZ system, which has been in place since 2016 to limit rental increases in areas of high demand and low supply of housing, has been in doubt since the Taoiseach confirmed the Government is considering abolishing the zones earlier this month.