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Average rent in Dublin

From the rents on tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, which every landlord in the country is required to do.

The average rent registered in Dublin was €2,165 a month in October to December 2025.

On the same quarter a year earlier it rose 4.3%, from €2,075. Over the five years on this page it rose 25.1%.

RTB/ESRI Rent Index · January to March 2026

New and existing tenancies in Dublin

New tenancies
€2,335 a month
rose 7.8% year on year
Existing tenancies
€1,960 a month
rose 3.6% year on year

These are standardised averages, adjusted for the changing mix of properties. They are a separate measure from the registered-rent averages and historical breakdowns on this page, whose source table runs to October to December 2025. Figures for a county do not describe each town within it.

RTB/ESRI report, Table 5. Published 3 September 2026.

The shape of it

Quarter by quarter

  1. Q1 2021€1,731
  2. Q2 2021€1,734
  3. Q3 2021€1,761
  4. Q4 2021€1,761
  5. Q1 2022€1,796
  6. Q2 2022€1,818
  7. Q3 2022€1,851
  8. Q4 2022€1,869
  9. Q1 2023€1,895
  10. Q2 2023€1,920
  11. Q3 2023€1,956
  12. Q4 2023€1,969
  13. Q1 2024€2,010
  14. Q2 2024€2,031
  15. Q3 2024€2,067
  16. Q4 2024€2,075
  17. Q1 2025€2,114
  18. Q2 2025€2,121
  19. Q3 2025€2,157
  20. Q4 2025€2,165

The bars do not start at zero. A rent series never goes near it, and a bar drawn from zero would make every quarter look identical.

By number of bedrooms

  1. Four plus bed€3,319
  2. One bed€1,741
  3. Two bed€2,253
  4. Three bed€2,586

Measured at Q4 2025.

By property type

  1. Detached house€3,058
  2. Semi detached house€2,599
  3. Terrace house€2,433
  4. Apartment€2,154
  5. Other flats€1,445

Measured at Q4 2025.

Towns in Dublin

The Board publishes a figure for a place only where enough tenancies were registered in it, so this is shorter than the list of towns with sale prices.

What this figure is, and what it is not

It is the average rent on tenancies in Dublin that were registered with the Residential Tenancies Board, which every landlord is required to do. It is an average rather than a median, so a small number of expensive lettings pull it upwards.

It is not the rent being asked in advertisements. An asking rent is what a landlord hopes for and this is what was signed.

It is not what a sitting tenant is likely to be paying either. A tenancy enters this average at the rent agreed when it started and does not enter again, so the figure leans towards recently agreed rents and sits above what somebody who has been in the same home for years pays.

If your own rent is going up, the figure that governs it is not this one. What a landlord may lawfully charge is worked out from the rules and your own history, and the rent increase calculator does that with the figures shown.

Buying instead of renting in Dublin

The median house in Dublin sold for €482,000 in 2025. House prices in Dublin, every town and year since 2010.

Where this comes from

The quarterly and annual average monthly rent tables published by the Residential Tenancies Board, via the Central Statistics Office, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Imported 9 September 2026. The yearly figures come from the annual table rather than from averaging the quarters, because averaging four averages would produce a figure the Board never published.

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