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Housing in NI: Have rents in Belfast gone up 50% in half a decade?

2 February 2026

In a 12 December article published in the Financial Times, Queen’s University Belfast Economics Professor Richard Ramsey claimed that rents in Belfast had: “Gone up

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Housing in NI: Are rents rising faster in Belfast than in London?

8 July 2025

In a post on social media, the Alliance Party claimed: “Rent [is] rising faster in Belfast than London.” This claim is supported by evidence. There

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Can Northern Ireland landlords get larger rates reductions than renters and owner-occupiers?

11 January 2024

On 25 October in an article for the Belfast Telegraph, journalist and policy expert Paul Gosling claimed that: “As landlords, we are given a discount