I’d like to thank all the landlords for all their hard work in securing themselves a 11.6% pay rise.
But but but but forriners.
Fucking landlords. Aim the anger at those cunts
“But isn’t Belfast so cheap to live in” “Your wages are lower in Belfast because your rent is cheaper”…. everyone says. Facts are important.
Funny how the article has Belfast as the highest increase in the graph, but then doesn’t mention it once in the article. Wigan, Carlisle, Motherwell, Chester, Blackburn all get a mention.
“Renters may not have any intention to buy”
Fuck off. Now I’m pissed off and it isn’t even 9am.
Lads were gonna have to bring back the troubles for a bit, just until house prices go down again.
I’m telling you, flags : a business proposal.
A “company” that you hire to “flag” an area, thus driving down the rental values of said area.
Different packages include wall murals at higher cost.
Is this not to some extent a list of towns where historically rent was lower than normal catching up somewhat as people move from the bigger cities where its currently unaffordable to live.
No, the infographic demonstrates it has the highest rent increase, not that it’s actually the most expensive overall. In fact even if you account for the recent significant increases it’s still one of the cheapest cities in the UK and Ireland to rent in.
Let’s be brutally honest – Belfast’s housing crisis isn’t some nuanced academic problem; it’s a fuelled by the insatiable maw of “buy-to-let” barons and a shocking lack of actual homes.
I mean – While some prattle on about “market forces” nebulously – we’re seeing lives mangled by rent hikes and the cold, hard reality of homelessness. It’s honestly time to yank off the velvet gloves and implement some concrete measures, not empty sound bites and performative hand-wringing.
We need to cap the greed, not people’s hopes. Implement sensible – indexed rent controls, tied to inflation, with a tiny allowance for genuine property improvements. This isn’t about crushing landlords, but stopping them from treating homes like personal ATMs.
If you’re holding properties empty while people sleep on the streets, a hefty, escalating vacancy tax should hit your wallet hard. Homes are for living, not for hoarding. Simultaneously, it’s about fairness: give genuine first-time buyers a real fighting chance with stamp duty relief on primary residences, while increasing it for subsequent purchases.
The state, not private enterprise, should be leading the charge to house its citizens with a massive, accelerated program of truly affordable public housing construction.
Finally, let’s target the predators. Significant increases in capital gains tax on second properties will make it less appealing to flip houses for quick profit. If you’re speculating on something as fundamental as shelter, your “gains” should help fund social housing.
We should also explore ways to limit the number of buy-to-let mortgages an individual or entity can hold, especially in areas like Belfast that are facing acute crises. This isn’t some. Fanciful and unworkable set of suggestions. – it’s a demand for basic decency and a recognition that housing is a fundamental right, not just another commodity to exploit.
Belfast deserves better than to be a playground for speculators while its own people are left out in a neverending uncertainty of rent hikes which keep them locked in the cold, in a an ongoing state of insecurity, anxiety, uncertainty and poverty.
This country is honestly finished. Every day it’s some different spell of shite news😂
It’s probably more to do with the rents previously being 11.6% cheaper, so more inline with rest of UK.
If my memory serves me, this is the 3rd consecutive year where NI has seen the steepest rise in rental prices
Have seen a few evictions over the last couple of months, there are people who have been there for over ten years. Will be interesting to see who gets housed in these properties.
My rent has grown from 300 a month to 750 a month, but to be fair that since 1994.. most years my landlord doesn’t increase my rent at all. EDIT: Just checked, £300 in 1994 is equivalent to £634 today, so I guess he’s put it up a little bit. And to be honest £300 per month between the three of us (I’m living here alone now though) I felt it was a bargain back in the day for a three bedroom semi with front side and rear garden in a very peaceful area of upper Lisburn Road.
You will own nothing, and be happy.
Sounds like people on here like blaming other people about things they don’t like in their life.
Considering how cheap it was / is. It makes sense
Serious question: how many housing units were built in Belfast last year?
We have had huge numbers of people from
England and the South move to NI in recent years. I think their rent is probably still cheaper for them so they don’t notice it as much as the rest of us.. and landlords happy to cash in given the demand
Blackburn rising so fast as the population is 40 percent Muslim and due to them breeding like gremlins with water tipped on them there needs to be 5 extra houses for each couple per generation .
I am from Blackburn, my rent went from 450 to near 700 overnight. Absolutely scandalous.
Somebody spare a thought for the poor landlords trying to make a living by squeezing the life out of the working class 😞
In all honesty I wouldn’t be surprised if people work work in the south and live in Belfast is the problem. Getting much higher wages in Ireland and living for cheap in the north
Rents are going up and pints are going up. The end is nigh!
councillors with vested interests in airbnb ect will be blind to this
I am pleased to see dundee has been fixing its rent prices.
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I’d like to thank all the landlords for all their hard work in securing themselves a 11.6% pay rise.
But but but but forriners.
Fucking landlords. Aim the anger at those cunts
“But isn’t Belfast so cheap to live in” “Your wages are lower in Belfast because your rent is cheaper”…. everyone says. Facts are important.
Funny how the article has Belfast as the highest increase in the graph, but then doesn’t mention it once in the article. Wigan, Carlisle, Motherwell, Chester, Blackburn all get a mention.
“Renters may not have any intention to buy”
Fuck off. Now I’m pissed off and it isn’t even 9am.
Lads were gonna have to bring back the troubles for a bit, just until house prices go down again.
I’m telling you, flags : a business proposal.
A “company” that you hire to “flag” an area, thus driving down the rental values of said area.
Different packages include wall murals at higher cost.
Is this not to some extent a list of towns where historically rent was lower than normal catching up somewhat as people move from the bigger cities where its currently unaffordable to live.
No, the infographic demonstrates it has the highest rent increase, not that it’s actually the most expensive overall. In fact even if you account for the recent significant increases it’s still one of the cheapest cities in the UK and Ireland to rent in.
Let’s be brutally honest – Belfast’s housing crisis isn’t some nuanced academic problem; it’s a fuelled by the insatiable maw of “buy-to-let” barons and a shocking lack of actual homes.
I mean – While some prattle on about “market forces” nebulously – we’re seeing lives mangled by rent hikes and the cold, hard reality of homelessness. It’s honestly time to yank off the velvet gloves and implement some concrete measures, not empty sound bites and performative hand-wringing.
We need to cap the greed, not people’s hopes. Implement sensible – indexed rent controls, tied to inflation, with a tiny allowance for genuine property improvements. This isn’t about crushing landlords, but stopping them from treating homes like personal ATMs.
If you’re holding properties empty while people sleep on the streets, a hefty, escalating vacancy tax should hit your wallet hard. Homes are for living, not for hoarding. Simultaneously, it’s about fairness: give genuine first-time buyers a real fighting chance with stamp duty relief on primary residences, while increasing it for subsequent purchases.
The state, not private enterprise, should be leading the charge to house its citizens with a massive, accelerated program of truly affordable public housing construction.
Finally, let’s target the predators. Significant increases in capital gains tax on second properties will make it less appealing to flip houses for quick profit. If you’re speculating on something as fundamental as shelter, your “gains” should help fund social housing.
We should also explore ways to limit the number of buy-to-let mortgages an individual or entity can hold, especially in areas like Belfast that are facing acute crises. This isn’t some. Fanciful and unworkable set of suggestions. – it’s a demand for basic decency and a recognition that housing is a fundamental right, not just another commodity to exploit.
Belfast deserves better than to be a playground for speculators while its own people are left out in a neverending uncertainty of rent hikes which keep them locked in the cold, in a an ongoing state of insecurity, anxiety, uncertainty and poverty.
This country is honestly finished. Every day it’s some different spell of shite news😂
It’s probably more to do with the rents previously being 11.6% cheaper, so more inline with rest of UK.
If my memory serves me, this is the 3rd consecutive year where NI has seen the steepest rise in rental prices
Have seen a few evictions over the last couple of months, there are people who have been there for over ten years. Will be interesting to see who gets housed in these properties.
My rent has grown from 300 a month to 750 a month, but to be fair that since 1994.. most years my landlord doesn’t increase my rent at all. EDIT: Just checked, £300 in 1994 is equivalent to £634 today, so I guess he’s put it up a little bit. And to be honest £300 per month between the three of us (I’m living here alone now though) I felt it was a bargain back in the day for a three bedroom semi with front side and rear garden in a very peaceful area of upper Lisburn Road.
You will own nothing, and be happy.
Sounds like people on here like blaming other people about things they don’t like in their life.
Considering how cheap it was / is. It makes sense
Serious question: how many housing units were built in Belfast last year?
We have had huge numbers of people from
England and the South move to NI in recent years. I think their rent is probably still cheaper for them so they don’t notice it as much as the rest of us.. and landlords happy to cash in given the demand
Blackburn rising so fast as the population is 40 percent Muslim and due to them breeding like gremlins with water tipped on them there needs to be 5 extra houses for each couple per generation .
I am from Blackburn, my rent went from 450 to near 700 overnight. Absolutely scandalous.
Somebody spare a thought for the poor landlords trying to make a living by squeezing the life out of the working class 😞
In all honesty I wouldn’t be surprised if people work work in the south and live in Belfast is the problem. Getting much higher wages in Ireland and living for cheap in the north
Rents are going up and pints are going up. The end is nigh!
councillors with vested interests in airbnb ect will be blind to this
I am pleased to see dundee has been fixing its rent prices.
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