Showing posts with label real estate funds. Show all posts
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Friday, 11 November 2016

A spiral out of control: global real estate funds, rental crisis & government policy

Rory Hearne: The Minister for Housing, Simon Coveney, indicated yesterday that he is not going to introduce rent regulation/certainty as it might deter the ‘supply’ of private rental accommodation. This shows that it is the new Irish landlords – the wealthy global real estate funds – that are influencing housing policy and not the needs of the hundreds of thousands of tenants facing spiraling rents and evictions.