Private Rented Accommodation Price Controls

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Questions (235)

Dessie Ellis

Question:

235. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the average private rent in each local authority area in 2014 and 2015. [24171/15]

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Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

In May 2013, the PRTB launched a national rent index available at http://www.prtb.ie/landlords/rent-index-dec-2014. Compiled by the Economic and Social Research Institute and based on the PRTB’s own register of over 300,000 tenancies, this valuable source of information indicates the actual rents being paid for rented properties throughout the State. The rent index is updated quarterly and shows the percentage change in rents over the previous quarter and over the previous twelve months.

The PRTB website also contains an Average Rent Dataset which enables people to check the average rent being paid for five different categories of dwelling types throughout the country, in both urban and rural areas. Using a drop down menu, an individual can select up to five different property types (semi-detached, apartment etc.) and year from 2007 onwards to see the average rent for the selected location.

The dataset is available at http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/pssn/prtb/homepagefiles/rent_index_statbank.asp.