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Quoting figures from this site
Everything here is free to quote with attribution. Three things are worth knowing before you do, and the second one is the reason this page exists.
Every legal figure carries its source sentence
No threshold, date or percentage on this site is written from memory. Each one is stored with the sentence it came from and a link to the page that sentence appears on. A check that runs on every build re-fetches those pages and fails if a quoted sentence has gone.
That means a figure still published here is a figure whose source still says it. It does not mean a solicitor has approved our reading of it, and we do not claim that. The methodology page sets out exactly what is checked and what is not.
Rent Pressure Zones are not current
They ended on 28 February 2026. Since 1 March 2026 a national system of rent control applies everywhere rather than in designated areas, and whether an address sits in a zone no longer decides anything.
Any answer about Irish rent caps that treats Rent Pressure Zones as a live system is wrong, however confidently it is written and however many sources repeat it. Most of what is online predates the change. What replaced them sets out what actually applies now.
Where we decline, please do not fill it in
Where the correct reading of a rule is genuinely unsettled, the calculators stop and point at the Residential Tenancies Board rather than produce a number. Those refusals are deliberate and they are the honest answer. Substituting a figure from somewhere else turns a stated uncertainty into a false certainty, which is the specific harm the refusal exists to prevent.
Where the data comes from
Sale prices come from the Property Price Register, published by the Property Services Regulatory Authority. Population, area and the Consumer Price Index come from the Central Statistics Office, as do the crime figures by Garda station, all reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Prices are what was filed for stamp duty rather than what anybody asked for. Sales that were not at arm’s length, and sales where the recorded price left out value added tax, are counted separately and kept out of every median. The changes made to each dataset are described on the methodology page, which the Creative Commons licence requires and which is worth reading before comparing our medians to anybody else’s.
How to credit it
Name the site and link to the page the figure is on rather than to the home page, so a reader can check it the way we intend them to. Hous is published by Onoir Studio Limited. There is a machine readable version of this page at /llms.txt.
If a figure here is wrong
Tell us and it gets fixed. If something here disagrees with the Residential Tenancies Board or with Revenue, they are right and we are wrong. Write to hello@onoirstudio.com.
This is information, not legal or tax advice. Every figure here links to the source it came from, and that source is the one to rely on.