Yes, the solution to the original complexity is to make the rules 10 times more complex!
RTB Rent Register
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I don’t know any other sector that gets as much bad press as the private rental market but I could be wrong. The constant criticism and bad-mouthing of landlords is never ending, they are always the bad guy no matter what the issue is - eg Wexford this week.
It possibly does need a separate thread.
We may be due an inflation shock due to the invasion of Iran. The max 2% increase will be useless if that happens. It'll be even worse for RPZ capped rents which can only increase at 2%.
GitHub - landlawd/rtbquerytool: RTB Rent Register Query Tool
RTB Rent Register Query Tool. Contribute to landlawd/rtbquerytool development by creating an account on GitHub.
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RTB Register Query Tool
Note: You need just a little programming knowledge to use this script. Just enough to install the runtime environment (python, selenium and chrome driver), open a cmd window and run the script.
This python script takes a config file containing an Eircode, the details of a reference property (dwelling type, BER, bedroom number, and floor space) and the ranges you want to query for similar properties (dwelling types, BER ratings, numbers of bedrooms and range of floor space).
The output is a csv file. The first 10 rows are the hits from the RTB Register for the reference property, including match score. Subsequent rows are all further properties returned from querying the additional ranges. Each property found is added only once (this is why further match scores are not included). The Tenancy Start date and Year updated are parsed out of the RT Number, so they are only as accurate as the RT number suggests.
The code currently takes a brute force approach, looping through all the possibilities. This means a sharply declining number of new properties found on each search. This is not efficient in terms of the number of queries and the runtime, so I am conidering optimizing it.
Everything else is written in the code file header comments.
Use at your own risk.
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Fair play, once I have a bit of time in the next few weeks I'll give it a go. Would love to see what people find from the register, feel free to share some csv files/screen grabs!
I've been trying it out. Very few high rents come up and I wonder if it excludes anything rented in the last 6 months or so
In the same district, I have a 4 bed (one assumes a house) at €1,715 & a 4 bed at €4,785.
That difference is not explained by BER or sq footage.
I think with @patfert1 code (and well done on that) & an archive from daft/myhome; you'll make mince meat of any claim that you are above market rent.
That difference is not explained by BER or sq footage.
I think with @patfert1 code (and well done on that) & an archive from daft/myhome; you'll make mince meat of any claim that you are above market rent.
am I right in thinking you mean that the BER and sq footage is the same for both properties? Do one or both properties not show up on the 10 RTB properties?
Yes i've experienced this. A search using two different eircodes in south donegal turned up slightly different results, even though the electoral district and all other search criteria were identical. So in other words,the address from "step 1" appears to be also used in the "step 2" query. One possible enhancement to my code would be the ability to loop through multiple eircodes within the same electoral district to build up a wider picture.
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outofmymind
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Regarding the last two digits. They seem to be the update year of the tenancies, but don't necessarily mean that the rent was updated at that time. e.g. outside an RPZ rent increases were only allowed once every two years, and yet tenancies that started in say Jan or Feb 2025 are shown as having been updated. So the only thing that is likely to have changed is that the landlord paid their €40 annual fee. So whatever about in an RPZ, where rents increases are annual but fixed, outside of these the rents are potentially up to almost 2 years out of date even if the update year is 2026.
All rents on the register are "out of date" unless the property was recently:
a) introduced to the rental market, having never been leased before, or
b) re-introduced to the rental market after a greater than two year absence
All other instances of an annual re-registration, registration of a new tenancy, or rent rise of 2% under RPZ, are just dates associated with historic and ongoing suppression of rent to levels below market rent.
I mean there's not enough difference to account for 3k higher rent.
So one property is clearly cost rental / 2016 rent / housing association / or whatever.
As I say, you can ride a coach & horses through this, there's so many holes.
This is a valid argument, but you are now legally required to justify your rent level using the 10 hits from the rent register, without much visibility into these tenancies beyond what can be guessed from the RT number and that is very flawed. My experience so far is that you can find support for high rent levels in Dublin, but in rural areas the rent levels I found on the register were very low. This is based only on a few tests, so caveat.
From Extra.ie
The Minister says here
‘I was never going to allow a resetting of rents without the requisite strengthening on the tenant and renters side. It was never on the table for me. We will now have some of the strongest protections for renters in Europe, and that’s what I made sure happened.'
But as we are seeing that the re-set is designed to be to pretty much what you were renting at already.
The Minister says here
‘I was never going to allow a resetting of rents without the requisite strengthening on the tenant and renters side. It was never on the table for me. We will now have some of the strongest protections for renters in Europe, and that’s what I made sure happened.'
But as we are seeing that the re-set is designed to be to pretty much what you were renting at already.
Also from the article "Controversial new rental reforms that came into effect last weekend will result in more evictions as landlords falsely claim they are selling properties in order to charge new tenants higher rents, an opposition housing spokesman has claimed."
It really annoys me that the opposition are continuing with this narrative that landlords are greedy individuals out to get as much as they can, and will lie about selling in order to re-let at market rate. I think if anything, the rent register has proven that the majority of landlords are not greedy and have rented at below market rent for a long time in compliance with the rules. A lot are fed up now, and just want to sell and get out of the business. I very much doubt anyone is evicting in order to re-let at market rent, they genuinely want to sell!
Agree entirely.
I am sure Rory Hearne has looked at the rent register. He'd love to shout from the rooftops about renters being pinned to their collar by the greedy landlords. Complete silence from him however and not a word saying 'I was wrong, the majority of landlords are compliant'
We can't win! Once they twigged that we were evicting to genuinely sell, they blocked it.
According to the RTB in Q2 2025 the standardised average monthly rent for existing 1 bed apartments in Dublin was €1619. €1832 for new tenancies.
I put in the details for a well located 1 bed in Dublin 4 . ber C3
The 2 closest matches were around €1250, 4 around €1550, 3 around €1700 and 1 at €2500.
The BER of the closest match is F
Daft currently have 72 1 bed listings in Dublin 4. The cheapest is actually a studio at €1600. The next bracket is 3 at €2000.
The results from the register are definitely rigged.
I put in the details for a well located 1 bed in Dublin 4 . ber C3
The 2 closest matches were around €1250, 4 around €1550, 3 around €1700 and 1 at €2500.
The BER of the closest match is F
Daft currently have 72 1 bed listings in Dublin 4. The cheapest is actually a studio at €1600. The next bracket is 3 at €2000.
The results from the register are definitely rigged.