Market Rents In Wicklow Rise By 4.9% In First Quarter Of 2025-Daft.ie

The average listed rent in the garden county is now €2,106, up 47% from the level prevailing when the covid19 pandemic occurred.

Market rents in Dublin's commuter counties rose 4.8% year-on-year, down from 11.8% a year ago. 

Market rents rose by an average of 3.4% in the first three months of 2025, according to the latest Rental Report by Daft.ie, one of the largest three-month increases in the last two decades.

The average open-market rent nationwide in the first quarter of 2025 was €2,053 per month, up from a low of just €765 in 2011 and 48% higher than before the outbreak of covid19. 

There were just over 2,300 homes available to rent nationwide on May 1st, down 14% year-on-year. This is the third lowest total for May in twenty years and close to half the 2015-2019 average for availability of homes to rent.