Housing

Just 3% of new tenants in Dublin paying €1,000 or less in rent

New data shows that 50.5 per cent of new tenancies in the capital signed in Q3 2023 were for more than €2,000

The average rent paid by new tenants in the third quarter of last quarter was €1,598 compared to €1,357 by a sitting tenant, a difference of 17.7 per cent a month. Picture: Getty

Nearly a third of all new tenancies, registered between July and September of last year, are paying more than €2,000 a month in rent, according to new data from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB)

In Dublin, more than half of new tenancies signed in the third quarter of 2023 were for more than €2,000.

The details were included in the latest RTB rent index, which publishes data on rent levels in both existing tenancies, and ...