Rents up 10.3% as availability hits all-time low

Daft report finds that the average listed rent in Dublin is now €2,056, up 100 per cent from its lowest point in 2011

Nationally, the average rent stood at €1,524 in the last few months of 2021, double the low of €765 per month seen in late 2011. Picture: RollingNews.ie

Rents rose nationally by more than 10 per cent in the last quarter of 2021 when compared to the same period the previous year, the highest year-on-year rise in more than three years.

The findings were released on Wednesday as part of Daft’s latest Rental Price Report, which also indicated that rents in Dublin rose by 4.1 per cent between September and December, the largest three-month increase since early 2014, and that rents rose nationally ...