Will Rent Pressure Zones worsen the rental market logjam?
Nasty Nick and Decent Dave: how do you measure a problem like rental inflation?
Would you rather be fat or tall? Time for Dublin to grow up
Rents on the rise in the cities – a bad signal but a good sign?
This post reviews the findings of the latest Daft.ie Rental Report. Rents rose slightly in the first few months of 2011, and the year-on-year change in rents in some parts of Dublin and in Cork city is positive time for the first time since 2008. This post explains how this is both a bad signal but a good sign, and what it tells us about the underlying economy. Read more
Spotting the swallows – Ireland’s rental market in 2010
Ireland’s property market has had nothing but bad news for most of the past three years. This post reviews some of the data from the rental market during 2009, in particular comparing the stock on the rental market with the number of transactions it is processing. It finds evidence to believe rents will level off in Dublin and the other major cities in the next few months, although the outlook for smaller rental markets looks unchanged from a year ago. Read more
How much are rents falling around the country?
A review of the latest trends in Ireland’s residential lettings market, from the Q1 2009 Daft.ie Rental Report, including a map of the changes in rents by county. Read more