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Students coming to university in Galway must be sure of their rights and responsibilities before signing a rental agreement or verbally agreeing to rent properties.

Mayo County Council can and will terminate the contracts of landlords with whom they have entered into agreements under the Rental Accommodation Scheme, if the landlords fail to live up to their obligations to stop their tenants from engaging in antisocial behaviour.

A couple who hadn’t paid rent to Westmeath County Council in almost two years and owed over €6,000 to the authority, avoided eviction on a technicality in the District Court this week (June 16).

The amount of time involved in letting and managing a property can be underestimated, and while cost savings are at the forefront of everyone’s mind not using a reputable letting agent can in fact be cost detrimental.

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A first-time buyer is someone who has not previously either individually or jointly, purchased or built, on his or her own behalf, a house in Ireland or abroad. Where there is more than one purchaser, each must come within the scope of the definition in order to avail of stamp duty exemptions. In addition, it must be your principal private residence and no rent, other than rent under the stamp duty rent a room arrangements, can be derived from the property for two years after the date of the current purchase.

Landlords and developers with residential properties on hand at March 31 must make a second NPPR (non-principal private residence) levy payment of €200 per property on or before June 30. The levy applies to all private rented properties, including holiday homes, situated in Ireland.

A new working group established to examine the issue of commercial rent reviews, is due to report at the end of June. That is according to Minister for Labour Affairs Dara Calleary.

Rent levels for retail premises in Galway city centre were unsustainable even before the economic downturn and continue to be a source of major concern for businesses, according to the Galway Chamber of Commerce which is calling on landlords to be more realistic.