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Trouble is growing in the property market. Private sector tenants are experiencing increasing difficulties with unregistered landlords, according to officials from the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB). And management services and charges have become highly contentious issues.

Apartment development is becoming the dominant form of new housing in Dublin. But the management of apartment complexes, along with privately-managed housing estates, has given rise to a range of problems involving high running costs, inadequate services and complex title issues where the rights of home owners have been largely ignored.