Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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1278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current average residential property rental cost in Dublin city and Dublin north city. [33679/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Compiled by the ESRI and based on the Residential Tenancies Board’s own register of over 300,000 tenancies, the RTB Rent Index is a valuable source of information and provides standardised average rent data at Local Electoral Area level throughout the State, based on the actual rents reported in registrations with the RTB.  The Rent Index is updated quarterly and shows the percentage change in rents over the previous quarter and over the previous twelve months.

Earlier this year, the RTB and the ESRI revised and developed the methodology for producing the RTB's Rent Index so that RTB data can now be used to calculate and monitor changes in rents at the level of Local Electoral Areas.  On 15 June, the RTB published the Rent Index Report in relation to Quarter 1 2017, which includes a summary of the data in relation to all Local Electoral Areas across the country.

For Quarter 1 2017, the standardised average rent for Dublin, as reported in the RTB Rent Index, is €1,415 per month.  The report, including details for Local Electoral Areas in Dublin, is publicly available on the RTB website at the weblink below and allows all interested parties to see exactly where their area stands in relation to average rent levels.

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