2025

Significant changes to Irish residential tenancies legislation have been announced to come into effect from March 1st, 2026. The Government has indicated that these reforms are aimed at boosting investments in the supply of homes for rent while extending protections for tenants, to achieve these aims together will be challenging and only time will tell if the new legislation can be effective. Meantime, countrywide, market rents rose by an average of 3.4% between December and March. This is the joint-second largest increase in market rents (after 2022 Q3) on record, in a series that goes back 76 quarters.

2024

The rental accommodation availability figures for Ireland continue to make for stark reading over 10 years after the current crisis commenced. A quick look at this report will indicate that on average across the country, availability of properties to rent is down nearly 25% on the same period the previous year. Also worth noting is just how similar the data is right across the country, this isn’t just a ‘Dublin problem’ or a ‘Cork problem’, it is a problem that exists in nearly every corner of the country, every city, town & village.

2024

Roll on a few months and we are now seeing evidence of convergence across the country regardless of location. This is not a positive convergence unfortunately, but one where conditions outside Dublin remain brutal while the slight easing we had seen in Dublin has rapidly been replaced by rising prices and deteriorating availability. In some ways, as we publish this report each quarter, it can be difficult not to sound like a broken record or to be the eternal harbingers of bad news about brutal rental market conditions, but the fact is that very little changes.

2024

The modest improvements in rental accommodation availability we discussed in recent reports, primarily in Dublin, have seriously regressed and we are now in a situation where the inventory of rental properties is in serious decline, a situation we have been in so many times in the recent years. Sixteen months of improving availability has not just come to an end but is regressing quite rapidly. Spare a thought too for the extremely difficult conditions outside Dublin in cities such as Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford where availability has collapsed, and prices are soaring.

2024

Price inflation eases but there are new clouds on the horizon. Our latest report presents two different perspectives as we head into the second half of 2024. While there is a definite slowing in price inflation which we discussed in our last report (noting however that prices are still rising), we are very concerned that the availability of rental homes in the Dublin market is falling once again, after 14 months of (slightly) improved availability.

2023

In the seven years that we have been issuing rental accommodation reports for the Irish market, we have generally struggled to find positive news. Then in our last report we talked about some ‘slight easing’ in the Dublin market, albeit that this easing was counter-balanced by a myriad of continuing problems, ongoing price inflation being the main one. In this report we are happy to confirm that the supply situation in Dublin continues to improve thanks largely to new-build rental supply. However, as always, there is a flip side, the real problem in Dublin has flipped from being one of availability to one of affordability.

2023

While there have now been seven months during which availability of rental homes has improved year-on-year, Dublin has been the only real beneficiary, and in a minor way. Indeed, the entire island of Ireland remains in dramatic deficit when it comes to high quality affordable rental accommodation.

2023

Ireland rental update Q2 2023: With the latest market data there are, as ever, a multitude of facts and figures, which depending on where one looks, could indicate a market getting better or worse.

2023

Ireland rental update Q1 2023: For over a decade now, the Irish rental market has been characterized by worsening availability and, as a consequence, higher and higher rents.