r/RentingInDublin

I've been sending enquiries to some listings on Daft from Grayling Properties. They always email with a link to a form to fill out on a website called "app.lette.ai", where you have to fill out some details: desired move-in date, budget, number of occupants, and income. I never hear further from them after filling out this form, though.

Does anyone know what the story with this form is? Is it some kind of AI thing they use to screen enquiries? I've a feeling that it might be screening me because my income isn't high enough for the places I'm enquiring about.

Hi, im 24M and going to start in late september a PhD in TCD. I am looking for something that is max 40 minutes commuting from TCD and my budget is without sharing 1300 with the bills included (or something around that price with an approximation of the bills). Also I could be open to sharing with one person if there are good options. If you find anything I will gladly give more information in the dms.

I may be taking a job in dublin soon, but my family will continue to live elsewhere. I want to minimize the amount I'm spending on housing, and I'm quite fine with cramped quarters. Any advice where I should look? I've browsed daft.ie, and the cheapest I could find was around 700 euro/month at the moment.

Please someone tell me they have a room for 2 people sharing a bedroom in south Dublin as soon as possible as we are looking to move out by the 20th to 25th of August

Hi,

I am moving out of my house share in Tallaght. Room will be available from the 1st week of September.

Details:

- 850 a Month plus Bills

- Double Room, 2 Shared Bathrooms
- Easy Access to Red Line Luas, 27, S8, 77A, F1 bus routes
- Easy Access to The Square
- Renovated House with all Mod Cons
- Sharing with 3 others in their 20s

- Queer-Friendly

- Not Owner Occupied

If you're interested, give us a message and I can send on photos/details. Thanks!

I currently have no TV. Before I bought the house house I was used to having a modern-ish non smart TV with dodgy box. I really detest all these netflix/amazon/appleTV type of stuff. I usually either watch real TV, or old movies/series that netflix wouldn't have. Would the average modern person view this as me not having a TV?

I went to Currys the other day and every TV (barre one) was way too big. The one I like was a JVC for about €140. I don't know what's the best way to buy a second hand TV

Hi all, hoping for some local knowledge since I have been doing this search more than 2 months from abroad and I still cant find anything. The hardest part is not finding place, it is that nobody answer.

I'm a 4th-year CS student coming to UCD for an Erasmus exchange semester (28 Aug – 26 Dec 2026). Budget is around €600-850/month all-in (bills included), and ideally somewhere I can walk or cycle or ride to Belfield in under 30-60 min.

So far everything student-accommodation-branded (Aparto, Yugo, etc.) is coming in at €1,000+/month even for the "budget" options, way outside what I can afford. I've been going through Daft, CollegeCribs, digs.ie, HomeStay, AccommodationPad and Hosting Power with mixed luck — a lot of no-replies.

A few questions for anyone who's been through this:

• Do you have any dorm for students in Dublin and do they accept students from other unis?
• Is there actually any realistic dorm option in my price limit?

Really appreciate any pointers — trying to find something with under two weeks left before I fly out. Thanks!

Hey guys, if anyone knows bedrooms which are available please let me know. I’ve been desperately searching Facebook and Daft but don’t get responses back.
I have a budget of up to €1,000. I would like to find a place in D7,8,2,3,1, basically anywhere where I can easily get to the docklands either by walking or public transport.
Thank you

Hi, we're a group of 5 people, including two couples, looking for new accommodation in south Dublin.

Three of us are finishing BA and MA courses next year and one of us already graduated - we lived together in student accommodation up until now but wanted to make that move to private accommodation sooner.

For the past two months, I stayed in Ireland to go to viewings and talk to agents and look for a proper 3-bedroom house or apartment. Our budget is up to 4000€/month so paying wouldn't be an issue as we're covered by our parents, but we haven't been selected by ANY landlord in the past 11 viewings.

We're literally chill, tidy and I know no landlord would actually have a problem with us, but I don't know how to reflect that on paper when sending an application. I'm wondering if the problem is that we're a group of 5, that we're young students and not all in full-time employment or that we're immigrants.

Is there any way we can get better leverage in looking for a place? My lease in my current accommodation is up next week and it's been stressing me out that I'm gonna lose roof above my head simply because I want to live with my roommates in something that's not just for students. Especially if money isn't the problem, it's the assumptions about who we are.

Hi all - I have a few hours to sign a lease for Apt 1, 82 Grove Park.

The price is 1,450 euros for this 17 sq m place.

Location is clearly excellent, the size not so much.

I wanted to make sure general consensus is OK with this property and does not feel predatory?

Daft Link (if dont want to click can just search Apt 1 82 Grove Park on google)

Much appreciated.

Hi, Double bedroom with private bathroom available at royal canal park, Dublin 15 with rent being 1350 euros excluding bills. open for single occupant, two male /female , couples. 3mins walk to pelletstown station (8mins to connolly station , direct train to maynooth) , 10mins walk to broombridge luas ( 15 mins to city centre) , bus 120 and aldi infront of apartment , gyms nearby , 24/7 bus 39a in 10mins walk. all amenities available. Car parking included. DM if interested.

Hi everyone,

Shooting my shot here since I haven’t found a place yet.

My name is Raja. I’m 31, from Pakistan.
I’ll be attending UCD Smurfit this year, and am trying to find a place to live.

A bit about me:
I’ve been working in Riyadh, KSA for the last 3 years as a Digital Transformation consultant. I’m married but wife’s moved back to Pakistan for the duration of my MSc.
I did my bachelors from the US and I’m still friends with most of my old housemates.
I can cook some basic stuff, have no issues with cleaning and I’m pretty easy to live with.
Not big on drinking (occasional beer maybe) but don’t have any issues with others as long as you’re not an alcoholic (Have some really bad experiences with an old housemate who was an alcoholic).

I know the renting situation is tough in Ireland, so I’m keeping myself open to all options. Room sharing, private room or whatever else there is.
Budget is 600-1000, might be able to stretch it to 1100 if it includes some utilities.

I’m okay with men, women, non-binary or whatever you identify as, as long as you’re not an asshole and can respect boundaries. Also, you practice good hygiene

Also don’t care about your race or religion (No Scientologists though, sorry Tom Cruise)

Place shouldn’t be too far from UCD Smurfit. I’ll be relying on public transport mostly, and would prefer if it didn’t longer than 45 minutes to reach campus.

If you’re looking for a roommate/housemate please send me DM.

Large double bedroom (furnished with bed, wardrobe, lounge chair, vanity) for rent in Dublin 5

Rent is 925€/month (without utilities)

Utilities:

-Wi-fi, 20€/month;

-Gas and electric, every 2 months (amount depends on the season but could go up to 200€/pax in the wintertime);

-Bins, 90€/tenant/year.

House info:

- 2 double bedrooms and 1 bathroom (recently renovated);

-Living room with plenty of storage;

-Dining room with large table;

-Modern kitchen with toaster, kettle, oven, hob, American style fridge and freezer unit;

-Central heating available;

-Washing machine and dryer available;

-Lovely small front garden;

-Decent sized back garden.

Surroundings:

-Great city centre links: routes 15, 27, 42 and 43 available (bus stop is 5 minutes away from the house)

-Harmonstown DART station closeby aswell (20 minutes away by foot)

-Aldi 10 minutes away by foot, along with a pharmacy

-Northside Shopping Centre 20 min away by foot (with Tesco, Dunnes Stores, An Post), and next to it a Flyefit gym and a Lidl

-Busy area as it's by a main road (a GARDA station is closeby)

-Lovely area with restaurants and pubs 5 minutes away by foot from the house

Keeping the common areas clean, tidy and clutter free is very important (serious replies only would be appreciated)

If you're interested and would like to know more/see photos, feel free to reach out and provide a brief personal description in your DM !

The latest RTB figures put the average new-tenancy rent in Dublin at €2,232 per month.

So an average new Dublin tenancy consumes about 54% of the median worker's gross income.

Under the commonly used 50/30/20 budgeting guideline, all essential expenses are supposed to fit within roughly 50% of take-home income. Yet Dublin's average new-tenancy rent of €2,232 alone is equivalent to 54.4% of the median worker's gross monthly earnings — before tax, utilities, food or transport are considered.

Applying the ESRI's estimated 29.9% Cost Rental discount gives an equivalent rent of roughly €1,565 — a saving of around €667 per month or €8,000 per year. With median annual earnings in Dublin at €49,224, that represents roughly 38% of gross earnings, compared with 54% for the average private-market rent.

LDA's forecast that it will complete 13,272 homes between June 2026 and the end of 2030, drawn from projects already under construction plus projects moving through its pipeline. The LDA currently says about 6,500 homes are under construction across 20 developments.

The LDA says its total pipeline is now over 28,000 homes, but only 13,272 are forecast to be delivered by the end of 2030. Another 15,000+ sit beyond 2030.

Many of the developments are TBC on their cost rental numbers, but as it stands from the sites located on the below table 3,413 are listed as cost rental. Giving a snap shot of just one agencies contribution to The independent Housing Commission 14,732 Cost Rental homes from 2024–2030 through AHBs, local authorities, the LDA.

The official government target is 18,000 Cost Rental homes by 2030.

Ireland does not maintain a national waiting list for Cost Rental or Affordable Purchase housing, so there is no official figure for the number of households currently waiting. Applications are made development-by-development. However, available application data suggests demand substantially exceeds supply: LDA data covering 1,075 Cost Rental homes recorded 10,905 eligible applications — roughly 10 eligible applications for every available home.

In April 2026, the ESRI found that existing Cost Rental homes were 29.9% cheaper than comparable private-market rentals on average, while noting that provision remains heavily concentrated in urban areas—particularly Dublin—and should expand geographically.

Cross-referencing the LDA project list and recent project announcements gives us the approximate breakdown below.

Where the LDA’s 13,272 Homes Are Actually Being Built: Developments Identified for 2026–2030

Development	Location	Homes	Status / relevance
Clongriffin Central	Dublin 13	~2,000	Phase 1 construction; Phase 2 planning
Stapolin Square	Baldoyle, Dublin 13	~2,000	Multiple workstreams; construction tender underway
Cherry Orchard Point	Dublin 10	1,200	Major construction programme underway
Dún Brí / Dundrum Central	Dundrum, Dublin 14	934	Planning approved / enabling works
Hampton Demesne	Balbriggan	817	Under construction
Richmond Village	Fairview, Dublin 3	779	Project Tosaigh; completion expected 2029
Donore Project	Dublin 8	~665	542 Phase 1 + ~123/124 Phase 2
Cooper Square, Seven Mills	Dublin 22	607	Project Tosaigh / under construction
The Crossings	Adamstown	392	Project Tosaigh
Bluebell Waterways	Dublin 12	383	Construction scheduled to start 2026
Priory Fields	Skerries	345	Phase 1 construction; Phase 2 tender
Wilton	Cork	345	First homes targeted for 2029
Crown Square	Galway	345	Project Tosaigh
Marina Depot	Cork	337	Completion expected 2027
Horgan’s Quay	Cork	302	Under construction
The Lightworks	Dock Road, Limerick	284	Permission for cost-rental and social homes
Park West Pointe	Dublin 12	253	Completion expected by end-2027
Barracksfield West	Naas	219	Active development
Golding Green	Kinsealy, Co. Dublin	193	Under construction; completion 2028
Mungret Park View	Limerick	183	Construction started July 2026
Anglesea Terrace	Cork City	147	First homes potentially in 2030
🏠 GRAND TOTAL		~12,385 HOMES

SOURCES

• Land Development Agency — Mid-Year Update: source for the 13,272-home forecast, approximately 6,500 homes under construction and the wider LDA housing pipeline.

https://lda.ie/news/mid-year-update

• Land Development Agency — LDA Projects: source for individual developments, locations, housing numbers and project status.

https://lda.ie/projects

• ESRI — Pricing and Affordability of Ireland's New Cost Rental Housing Tenure (April 2026): source for the finding that Cost Rental homes were 29.9% cheaper than comparable private-market rental homes on average.

https://www.esri.ie/publications/pricing-and-affordability-of-irelands-new-cost-rental-housing-tenure-a-microdata

• Residential Tenancies Board — RTB Rent Index Q4 2025: source for the €2,232 per month standardised average new-tenancy rent in County Dublin.

https://www.rtb.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/RTB-Rent-Index-Q4-2025.pdf

• Central Statistics Office — Distribution of Earnings by Gender and County 2024: source for median annual earnings of €49,224 for people living in Dublin.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-dea/distributionofearningsbygenderandcounty2024/resultsandanalysis/

• Government of Ireland / Department of Housing — Affordable Housing and Cost Rental: source for the Government's target of 18,000 Cost Rental homes by 2030.

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/publications/affordable-housing/

• Housing Commission — Report of the Housing Commission (2024): source for the planned Cost Rental programme involving Approved Housing Bodies, local authorities, the LDA and other delivery channels.

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/publications/report-of-the-housing-commission/

• LDA planning documentation submitted to Cork City Council: source for the analysis of 10,905 eligible applications for 1,075 Cost Rental homes — approximately 10 eligible applications for every available home.

https://consult.corkcity.ie/en/system/files/materials/12524/Planning%20Report_1.pdf

• The 54.4% rent-to-income figure is calculated from the RTB and CSO figures above: €2,232 × 12 = €26,784 annual rent; €26,784 ÷ €49,224 = 54.4% of median gross annual earnings.

• The €1,565 illustrative Cost Rental figure is calculated by applying the ESRI's 29.9% average Cost Rental difference to the RTB's €2,232 Dublin new-tenancy rent. It is an illustration, not an official average Dublin Cost Rental rent.

Hi All,

Just looking for the best way to approach this situation as I don’t want to upset anyone, including myself. Sorry for the long post, just thought context would help.

I (29F) have lived in an apartment with 2 house mates for nearly two years and this summer one of them moved on to Canada and the other moved in with a friend to be closer to the city (the apartments we live in are quite far from Dublin City and we all commiserated at how that made us less social over time).

They both replaced themselves on the lease, I am looking to move closer to work myself but it’s just taken longer than expected because of the time of the year.

The first new housemate (25M) moved in start of July and the second (32F) moved in start of August.

The first housemate, we’ll call him C, is house sharing for the first time. The first couple of days after moving in, he brought 10 people into the h apartment living room. He was made aware by one of the previous tenant that having 10 people in the house is a not really a possibility and was encouraged to use social spaces for social gatherings.

He uses my things ( I said he could use the kettle and toaster, for context the apartment was not equipped with appliances or dishes when I moved in and I had to purchase everything myself. He was told this and said he would buy his own things. One of my previous housemates broke my nespresso and C has already broken some of my glasses and my pressing iron so I am inclined to ask him to stop using everything except the kettle and the toaster, just as a one point lesson for myself), he has knocked on my door on a bank holiday Monday night at 12:30am (don’t want to be dramatic and say Tuesday morning) asking if he could bring 3 friends in for “30mins” (woke me up, couldn’t sleep until 4am, had to swap shifts in work).

He has brought lady friends over multiple times during the week. First time I walked out of my room into the living room and the girl was just laying on the sofa. He was asked previously to send a message into the group chat if he was planning on having guests over. Works from home sometimes even though it was never discussed and has lady friends over during the day on those occasions. The other housemate texted me this week and told me he kept her up with sex noises all night ( they share a wall) and she also noticed he didn’t clean the apartment and asked if it was still her turn this week given he has not cleaned last week.

He was told we alternate with cleans every week to keep the apartment in good condition and he said himself how important cleanliness is for him. First time his clean was due I even helped to show what usually is done ( he broke my previous housemates vacuum cleaner in the process, unsure whether he told him about it or not). His turn has come since and he has not done the clean or acknowledged it to say he’d do it next week and leaves the sink, counters and floor covered in food when he is done cooking. He was boiling an egg and let it overcook until it exploded and went everywhere. The house smelled like death for 2 days and I couldn’t figure out why (he only told days after) and I was sweeping and found parts of the egg today.

He typically likes to cook between 23:00 and 01:00 which makes it impossible for me to fall or stay asleep, as the walls are paper thin.

What is the best way of going about this all?
I have house shared with people for many years, but I don’t think I have ever had this many talking points… he seems to get upset/annoyed when something is pointed out, my guess is because he doesn’t understand how he is interfering with our peaceful enjoyment of the living facilities.

I want to help improve the situation somehow, how do I go about it?