Landlord must pay €12,000 after serving notice of termination and then re-advertising at higher rent

by OvertiredMillenial

28 comments

  1. Good, and fair play to the tenant for following through on it.

  2. Imagine being a landlord in this country, you would have to be some idiot.

    Trying to charge market price for something you own is literally illegal.

  8. We almost rented a place from the letting agent in this article, they tried to charge us double the rent as a “service charge” off the books and we told them no, scumbags

  10. Do they also force the landlord to decrease the rent back down to what would have been a permissible increase?

    Otherwise I’m not overly sure how this is a meaningful punishment. The landlord will still be better off long-term having illegally jacked the rent as the increased rent yield will pay their fine and then some

  11. Ooo, the landlords are getting cancelled this year 🥰

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  12. Not much of a punishment, the extra rent the landlord took in last year will cover the payout. Is the landlord allowed to continue with the new increased rental price? If so, the landlord is wins here.

  14. Oh cool, I was starting to believe they couldn’t do whatever the fuck they wanted.

  15. This is literally the first time I’ve ever heard of a landlord being found out and successfully prosecuted for fraudulent eviction.

  18. €12,000 is not enough tbh. The property should be seized and sold to the public. Landlords provide nothing to society

  19. The whole system is designed to fail. My landlord asked us to move out as his son was going to move in. I went back to collect a few items three weeks after we moved out. A lovely Ukrainian family moved in, paying €1200 per month, on top of the €800 per month government payment. I was paying €1050 per month.

  21. >The rent of the new tenancy, meanwhile, is “extremely expensive” at €2,660, almost double that of ***her previous tenancy (€1,334)***, the tribunal heard.

    >Mr McKenna told the tribunal that the new tenants were paying ***€2017.77*** per month.

    €683 difference. So after less than 18 months the €12,000 fine is paid off and the higher rent remains.

    Smart landlord.

  22. They just won’t pay, or pay a pittance weekly.

    I had a colleague who won a ruling like this and was awarded about €4,000. The last I heard, the landlord had never paid and was just using excuses like they can’t or they can only afford €20 a week etc. They tried going to the guards but they were told they can’t do anything.

    Landlords are a law unto themselves.

  23. Slap on the wrist. Charge them what the property is worth and suddenly see the rents come down.

  24. Totally fair enough, in this case the landlord was taking the absolute piss.

  25. The tenants already lost more than the payout will cover, and will continue to lose far more.

    Heads the landlord wins, tails you lose.

  26. “If the punishment for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class”

  28. This is why everyone is getting out and with no landlords there is nowhere to rent. Any landlord is just punished for offering affordable rent because they’re then stuck in that regardless of future inflation and cost increases.

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