Last week’s RTB report, covering 2024, and the latest Daft.ie Rental Report, out yesterday, confirm that the private rental sector in Ireland is in a poor condition indeed. The RTB report indicated that rents in new tenancies registered in the final quarter of 2024 were 5.5 per cent higher on average – almost identical to the 5.7 per cent increase seen in the 2024 Q4 Daft report. Yesterday’s Daft.ie report covers the first three months of 2025 and indicates an increase in upward pressure on rents. Across the country as a whole, open-market rents in the first quarter were 7.3…

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