A new all-time high for rents has now been set for the seventh quarter in a row, according to the latest report from the property website Daft.ie. Its quarterly Rental Report says rents rose across the country by an average of 10.4% last year, while the mean monthly rent during the final quarter of 2017

Update 6.35pm: Opposition leader Micheál Martin has said a new report on housing rents makes for “very dismal and depressing reading.”He said that over a number of years the rental increase in Dublin has been “shocking” and warned it is having a “huge impact on people.”Mr Martin also accused Taoiseach Leo Varadkar of complacency in