{"id":478541,"date":"2026-06-02T03:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478541\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T03:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:48:08","slug":"a-tale-of-two-rentals-what-rooms-tell-us-about-irelands-supply-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478541\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two rentals: What rooms tell us about Ireland\u2019s supply problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>When supply improves, prices fall back \u2013 that\u2019s one of the baselines of economics. More demand has the opposite effect. And yet the latest Daft.ie Rental Report, covering the first quarter of 2026, presents what looks like a contradiction. On one hand, the national average for open-market rents rose by 4.4 per cent between January and March \u2013 the largest quarterly increase in a data series that stretches back to 2002. The quarterly increase even eclipses the surge in rents during 2022.\u00a0 On the other hand, the number of homes available to rent on May 1 this year was, depending\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>For a limited time, get your first month for \u20ac1 and unlock full access to The Currency and The Wall Street Journal \u2013 two premium memberships, one subscription.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; When supply improves, prices fall back \u2013 that\u2019s one of the baselines of economics. More demand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[807,2413,61,60,43,18377,206289],"class_list":["post-478541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-housing","tag-housing-market","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-rental","tag-rona-lyons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}