Tenants’ rights stronger than ever
Today, tenants have a huge degree of security in their leases, to a point that would appeared like a fantasy world just a few decades ago.
The way in which Irish people live in their homes has undergone enormous change over the past couple of decades.
Home ownership used to be the standard and the majority of people here (currently around 70%) still own the homes they live in. Back in the 1980s and into the early 1990s, Irish people had one of the highest home-ownership rates in Europe (over 80%).
