Last month’s Daft Rental Report found that market rents continue to rise at very high rates, year-on-year, especially outside Dublin. Rents in the capital at mid-year were up 3.5 per cent but rents outside the capital were up on average just shy of 10 per cent. To some, this presents something of a puzzle: Most of the rental market is covered by Rent Pressure Zones and these controls on rental inflation are supposed to apply not only within tenancies but also across tenancies.  John McManus, writing a week after the release of the Daft report in The Irish Times, had…

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