Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 March 2015
567. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of individual landlords registered with the Private Residential Tenancies Board; the number who own one property only, two to five properties and more than five properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9112/15]
View answerThe Residential Tenancies Act 2004 regulates the tenant-landlord relationship in the private rented residential sector and the Act provides that landlords in the sector must apply to the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) to register the tenancy of a dwelling within one month of the commencement of the tenancy. The published register lists the addresses of all tenancies registered with the PRTB. Details of the register on a county or, in the case of Dublin, a postcode basis are available on the PRTB website at https://portal.prtb.ie/public_registrations.aspx. The published register does not contain any information that could lead to the disclosure of the identity of the landlord or tenant or the rent payable.
In 2014, the PRTB commissioned a study entitled the Future of the Private Rental Sector to explore the policy options to ensure a sustainable private rented sector into the future. The report was published in October 2014 and showed that there were 156,643 landlords who had 300,543 tenancies registered with the PRTB. The study found that 65% of landlords own just one property, 82% of landlords have two or less properties and almost 91% of landlords have three or less properties. The full report is available on the PRTB website at http://www.prtb.ie/docs/default-source/pdf-manuals/future-of-the-private-rented-sector.pdf?sfvrsn=0.
