Information campaign launched to support tenants and landlords in Mayo
The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) has launched a public information campaign to support tenants and landlords in Mayo to understand the new rental law changes that will come into effect from March 1.
According to the RTB, the main ways the rental law changes will impact tenants and landlords in Mayo, include: Stronger protections for tenants with rolling six-year minimum tenancies; new rules that restrict how and when a landlord can end a tenancy; a new national system of rent control where annual rent increases are limited to 2 per-cent or inflation for most tenancies; and a new provision that landlords can re-set to market rent in limited circumstances.
The RTB is emphasising that the changes to Ireland’s rental laws will apply only to new tenancy agreements entered into from March 1, 2026. Existing tenancies will not be affected, and the new legislation does not alter the terms of current agreements, the RTB confirmed.
From March 1, 2026, landlords in Mayo must now provide a rent setting or rent review notice to both the RTB and their tenant, to explain how they determined the new rent level. Landlords in Mayo will be required to provide three examples of rents paid for comparable properties drawn from a new online tool, the RTB Rent Register.
A new RTB rent register will also go live on March 1.
The rent register draws on RTB tenancy registration data and is updated on a daily basis from the RTB’s tenancy registration system. It allows landlords in Mayo to search for rents paid for similar tenancies in the same local electoral area as the tenancy they are setting rent for. They can enter details such as the dwelling type, floor area, number of bedrooms and BER rating, and the RTB rent register will return the results that most closely match their tenancy.
Commenting on the new reforms, Director of the Residential Tenancies Board Rosemary Steen said: “The new rental law changes coming into effect on March 1 mark a significant step forward in strengthening tenant protections and providing regulatory certainty for landlords. New minimum six-year tenancies will provide greater stability for renters while new rent setting rules will bring increased transparency to how rent levels are set. The new RTB rent register will support transparency by providing landlords and tenants in Mayo with up-to-date information on rents paid for similar properties from the national register of tenancies.”
Dedicated resources are now available on the RTB website here for tenants and landlords in Mayo explaining the new rules, as part of a public information campaign.
The RTB will continue to engage with property professionals and landlord representative groups about the rental law changes through meetings and webinars in the coming weeks. The RTB is calling on landlords in Mayo to register for a series of educational webinars over the next three weeks that will support landlords to comply with the new rental laws.
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