This week sees the launch of the latest Daft.ie Rental Report. It has become something of a mission of mine to get the analysis of the rental market to focus as much on quantities as it does on prices. It is, of course, obvious that prices loom large in the discourse on the rental market. But an excessive focus on what is happening with rents, without looking at the broader system, is inappropriate. Part of the challenge with focusing on prices, not quantities, is that we don’t really know what is happening with average rents, i.e. the average rent paid…

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