New research from Daft.ie showed that 53% of rental properties in the capital are being listed as short-term lets. According to the research, yesterday there were 1,258 long-term rental properties available in Dublin on the property website, while the stock of full homes to let via Airbnb from professional listers was 1,419. The latter figure

Image: Shutterstock/Africa Studio Image: Shutterstock/Africa Studio OVER HALF OF all available rental properties in Dublin are now being listed as short-term lets for tourists. According to new research from Daft.ie landlords in the capital are increasingly opting to let to tourists rather than to long-term tenants. Yesterday 53% of homes in the Dublin rental market

Photo by Simon Auffret After the most recent Daft.ie report, which showed yet another year of double-digit growth in Dublin’s rental market, the Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA) claimed that the problem is that landlords just can’t make money in today’s rental sector. That’s right – the problem with double-digit rent increases, on top of the average

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