The problem with controlled rent has been an issue in Slovakia since the first restitutions. The permanent owners of the blocks of flats received, along with an inheritance from the state, non-terminable renters. All the administrations have wanted to solve the problem verbally. The only solution they came up with was to postpone the date of deregulation. The last straw should have been entry into the EU. It did not work and the new administration inherited the problem. The last deadline was the end of 2008. Controlled rent survived again. According to the autumn verdict from the Ministry of Finance, the controlled rent issue has been postponed indefinitely. Private owners will thus be prevented from profiting off their property. On the other hand, the renters don’t know what will happen. Many of them are unwanted and are being evicted. There are conflicts between the two parties, which should be solved by the state. There is no need to go too far back in history to know when the problem arose. The government, in the time of restitutions following the fall of Socialism, returned hundreds of block of flats to their original owners, accompanied by the renters, for whom the government set a monthly rent. The government guarantees them controlled rent at a fraction of the market value. For a spacious three-room flat in Bratislava’s Staré Mesto, one pays around 120 euros a month. The website Reality.sk offers a similar flat in the area for a 1000 euros a month. It is a vicious circle. There are private owners who are not at liberty to manage their own property. There is no profit from renting, and very often the payments don’t cover maintenance. Some owners even have to pay to cover the property’s costs. I Pg 58
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