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Average Rent Now More Than €2,000 A Month

Average rent is now more than €2,000 a month for the first time ever. Rents have risen by an averag...
Caoimhseach Connolly
Caoimhseach Connolly

9:43 AM - 19 May 2025



Average Rent Now More Than €2,...

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Average Rent Now More Than €2,000 A Month

Caoimhseach Connolly
Caoimhseach Connolly

9:43 AM - 19 May 2025



Average rent is now more than €2,000 a month for the first time ever.

Rents have risen by an average of 3% across the country between January and March.

Latest figures from the property listings website, daft.ie, show the average open-market rent is now was €2,023 per month.

Advertised rents were 48% higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic, and are up €1,258 from a low of €765 recorded in 2011.

The cost of rent is rising more dramatically in cities outside Dublin, with Limerick city seeing increases of 20% in the past year.

Cork city saw increases of 14% in the past 12 months, while average rents for new tenancies were up by 13% in Galway, and 10% Galway and Cork cities seeing increases of 13% and 14%.

In the year to March, market rents rose by almost 6% in Dublin and by an average of 9% for the rest of the country.



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