Reader's Blog: Landlords targeted as institutions go tax-free

“It is important to recognise the positive effects that institutional investment can have,” according to Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, who fails to see any downside to international corporations buying swathes of property in the country.

Reader's Blog: Landlords targeted as institutions go tax-free
Wed, 17 Apr, 2019 - 01:00

“It is important to recognise the positive effects that institutional investment can have,” according to Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy, who fails to see any downside to international corporations buying swathes of property in the country. Institutional investors spent more than €1.1bn on a record 2,923 Irish homes last year.

Meanwhile, rents and the number of people living in rented accommodation rise. Is there a connection?

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