How to find a rental in Ireland 2024

Published by HomeHive on 14.04.2024

In 2024 navigating Ireland's challenging rental market demands savvy preparation and strategic planning. Inspired by the invaluable advice found in the guide on How to Rent Accommodation in Ireland

How to create an ideal rental budget in 2024

Start by determining what you can afford factoring in the deposit (typically one month's rent) and initial rent payment. Remember utilities like electricity gas and internet add to monthly expenses so include these in your budget to ensure you're targeting properties within your means. Below you can refer to a the average Utility prices per month per person.

Know What You Want

Craft a list of non-negotiables for your new home. Whether it's proximity to work or school a certain number of bedrooms or specific amenities like a dishwasher a clear list will focus your search on suitable properties and ensure your new home meets your needs. Here’s simple list you can use as a starting point:

1. Location: Proximity to work/school amenities and public transport.
2. Bedrooms: Ensure adequate space for your household.
3. Amenities: Prioritize must-haves like a dishwasher washer/dryer or parking.
4. Pet-Friendly: Confirm if the property accommodates pets if applicable.
5. Community: Research noise levels and cleanliness.

Choosing Your Ideal Location

People tend to look for places around their workplaces or school. But this gets extremely annoying when the website/s you are using is only giving you an address and you need to copy & paste that address into google maps every single time. This gets very frustrating very quickly. Consider using a real estate aggregator like homehive.rent which provides an intuitive way for you to search around a point on the map. This was you can immediately filter the huge amount of properties that just too far away and do not meet your location criteria.

Searching for Properties

Leverage online platforms like homehive.rent daft.ie rent.ie and myhome.ie to find both short-term and long-term rentals. For those on a tighter budget consider shared accommodations available on different websites like RooMigo.ie daft.ie and myhome.ie. As you can see the list of websites is getting long and toggling between tabs definitely doesn’t help you or your nerves.

Help yourself and save valuable time by using a rental search engine such as homehive.rent where everything from the Irish market is in one place.

Look out for scams

1. Look Before You Leap: Does the listing seem expensive? Does it provide all the necessary information and is the seller not anonymous?
2. Keys before Money: Never wire money to a landlord without first seeing the property! This is just a recipe for disaster especially in scam prone market as the Irish.

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