Mr. Owen Keegan:

We have not done any research, but it certainly seems to me from my limited experience that we are dealing with a much more pressurised rental market. In the past, for example, a landlord might serve a perfectly legitimate notice to quit and the tenant would have no issue and would say "fine" and go somewhere else. Similarly, if I was pissed off with the standard of my rented accommodation, I would just move somewhere else. Now it is very hard to go somewhere else because it is very hard to access properties. I think the pressure on the rental market has caused a huge rigidity such that options that people had in the past are no longer there and the only recourse they have is increasingly to the RTB. That is my take on why the numbers are going up so dramatically.