With a portfolio of almost 2,300 apartments and a reach right across the city of Dublin, Ires Reit has emerged as Ireland’s largest non-Government landlord.

The trust For years Ireland’s biggest private landlord was possibly someone owning hundreds of apartments and bed-sits in the Rathmines area. Now it’s an Irish listed property investment company. Since the introduction of legislation a few years ago allowing for the pooling of properties into so-called real estate investment trusts (reits), Ires has emerged as the country’s largest non-Government landlord.