{"id":281896,"date":"2026-02-05T10:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/281896\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:02:10","slug":"government-called-on-by-property-body-to-pause-rent-reforms-to-prevent-landlord-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/281896\/","title":{"rendered":"Government called on by property body to pause rent reforms to prevent landlord exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The changes, which aim to improve tenancy security, will come into force next month\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerard O\u2019Toole, president of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0d4e0f4b-e4b0-4679-8c81-9ff88e34e104.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gerard O\u2019Toole, president of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Estate agents have called on the Government to pause radical reforms to the rental market due to be implemented from next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The annual residential property review from the Society of Chartered Surveyors of Ireland (SCSI) shows member estate agents believe the planned changes are destabilising the rental market by forcing landlords to sell up ahead of them coming into force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The changes, which aim to improve tenancy security, will come into force next month Gerard O\u2019Toole, president of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3361,74908,42,807,3662,7116,3362,43,3415,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-281896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-charlie-weston","9":"tag-eoin-o-broin","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-housing-crisis","13":"tag-james-browne","14":"tag-money-experts","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sinn-fein","17":"tag-top-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topnews","20":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}