Small landlords and the housing market Sir, – Are we using the wrong metric to measure rental capacity in Ireland? As a small private landlord in the residential market, I believe the new legislative changes, combined with strict rent controls, make it more rational for landlords to sell and leave the market rather than remain in it. This is unfortunate, because each time a landlord exits the rental market we are losing far more than one rental unit. We are actually losing bedrooms, and this is the metric that truly matters. It is the same metric we use when assessing...