The State's Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) is rolling out an information campaign from today informing tenants and landlords about new rent rules which come into effect from Sunday, 1 March.
Landlords will now be required to submit notices to both tenants and RTB, whereas previously notices only had to be sent to the tenant when the rent changed.
The organisation will also publish a rent register on 1 March showing how much people are paying for accommodation nationally.
It will draw on registered tenancies and will be updated on a daily basis from the RTB's system and will allow people to search under Eircode, dwelling type, number of bedrooms and floor space.
The RTB also provides a calculator which allows landlords check the rent they are allowed charge.
"It is much more digital enforcement," said RTB Director Rosemary Steen, who added that the new legislation will give greater protection to renters.
She said the RTB will report to the Government if it believes any changes are needed to the legislation.
She added the organisation has increased staff numbers.
Under the new rules, tenancies created after 1 March will have a minimum duration of six years and there will also be more limited grounds for eviction.
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After 1 March landlords with vacant properties will be able to reset the rent to the market rent, but only if the previous tenant left by choice.
Ms Steen said: "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."
There is no change for tenancies which were commenced before 1 March.
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Senior lecturer on housing at TU Dublin Lorcan Sirr described the new rules as being " a little bit of a Bon Jovi's 'living on a prayer' strategy - there's no guarantee that this would ever happen."
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, he said: "You can't make companies do what the Government necessarily wants them to do."
From March 1, landlords will have to keep rent price increases capped at 2% or the rate of inflation annually, but with a new tenancy the owner can reset it to the market rate with no limit.
The new legislation is strongly opposed by the Opposition, which warned that prices would skyrocket.
The Coalition argued that the new law will offer increased protection to renters.
"If market rents have shot up in that period, that will be a big jump for any existing tenancies," Dr Sirr said.
Protection against evictions will also undergo significant changes, especially when it comes to bigger landlords - classified as anyone who owns more than three tenancies.
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Large landlords will only be able to evict if tenants are not meeting their obligations, such as failing to pay rent or if the property is no longer suitable for the tenant.
Small landlords, however, will be allowed to ask the occupant to leave if "the landlord or a close family member needs to live in the property" or if the owner is experiencing "financial or other hardship," according to the rules as outlined by the Residential Tenancies Board.
Dr Sirr argued that by introducing a new reason of "personal hardship" for small landlords the new rules "don't really increase security of tenure."
"At the end of the six-year cycle, all landlords, if they want to sell it, if they need it for a family refurbishment or change of use, can ask somebody to leave," he said.
He said he thinks that clarity for both tenants and landlords is still lacking.
"The problem with complex legislation is it means complex policy and, likely, an increase in disputes in the RTB," he said.
