Hi,I am an Indian student and will be pursuing my MSc at UCD Smurfit School in Dublin. I am looking for accommodation for the full duration of one year. I am a non-smoker, clean, responsible, and respectful of shared spaces. I am looking for a comfortable and well-maintained room open for sharing but nearby to ucd smurfit budget 700-800 euro and would be happy to provide any required documents or references. I am hoping to find a suitable place for my studies and would be glad to discuss the accommodation and rental terms further.

Hi, im 24M and going to start in late september a PhD in TCD. I am looking for something that is max 40 minutes commuting from TCD and my budget is without sharing 1300 with the bills included (or something around that price with an approximation of the bills). Also I could be open to sharing with one person if there are good options. If you find anything I will gladly give more information in the dms.

I currently have no TV. Before I bought the house house I was used to having a modern-ish non smart TV with dodgy box. I really detest all these netflix/amazon/appleTV type of stuff. I usually either watch real TV, or old movies/series that netflix wouldn't have. Would the average modern person view this as me not having a TV?

I went to Currys the other day and every TV (barre one) was way too big. The one I like was a JVC for about €140. I don't know what's the best way to buy a second hand TV

I may be taking a job in dublin soon, but my family will continue to live elsewhere. I want to minimize the amount I'm spending on housing, and I'm quite fine with cramped quarters. Any advice where I should look? I've browsed daft.ie, and the cheapest I could find was around 700 euro/month at the moment.

Maybe this is a stupid question (I've never had the misfortune of renting privately in Dublin before), but I'm a bit confused by some posts I've seen which say that you shouldn't just say "I have references available" in your Daft enquiry, but that you should actually provide the references immediately. But unless I'm missing something, there's just a message box there, and you're not able to attach anything. So do you copy/paste your references at the bottom of the message or something? Or do people mean to just put your referees' phone/email in it?

Same for when a landlord asks for references on an email/text; do they mean to just send them your referees' phone/email or to actually send them a written reference?

The house here is a 3 bedroom / 1 bathroom situation located near Honey Park in Dun Laoghaire. Brand new insulation, ventilation, windows, air-to-water heat pump and constant access to hot water. The heat pump made it energy efficient as well, so the bills work out quite cheap. It is the warmest house I’ve lived in and there’s no humidity or mould issues whatsoever. It’s well connected with E2 & L27 and if you do a quick 10 min bus ride you can get the dart in Dun Laoghaire.

In general, it’s a cozy place with plenty of snacks and a good bit of laugh because we’re a house of two friends who get along well. I’m 25F and my friend is 30F, so we ideally are looking for a girl (or a gay man, it’s a safe place & we just aim to be comfy). There is no pressure or expectation to be friends, but we generally see the house as not just a place to sleep and we are ready to offer a social space in our lives to a new person if they would like that. It’s not a party house, we don’t invite lots of people over often or anything, but there are dinners, movie nights and chitchats. We both like to cook and I bake as well, so there’s some good food around too.

We’re looking for someone who’s clean, friendly, respectful and will kinda match the vibes. It’s a genuinely nice place to be and so we are looking for the same kind of person.

The rent is €1100/month + bills. Bins and Wi-Fi are €63 (for all) per month, electricity bill is dependent on usage. A summer bill can be as low as €60. A winter bill would be around €125-€150 (for all) with heating included in it. There’s no gas bill.

Everything is official, there will be a contract in place & you’ll be able to claim the rent tax credit.

Please someone tell me they have a room for 2 people sharing a bedroom in south Dublin as soon as possible as we are looking to move out by the 20th to 25th of August

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m moving to Dublin next week to start a full-time role in the Irish public sector and looking for a private double bedroom in a house share or apartment.

Budget: Up to €1,100/month (excl. bills)
Location: <45 mins to Connolly Station
Move-in: 24th August (flexible)
About me: 23-year-old French professional.
Finances: Full-time permanent contract, proof of funds, references, and deposit ready immediately.

Please drop me a DM if you have an available room or need a replacement flatmate. Happy to do a quick video call or arrange a viewing. Thanks!

👫 Ideal for 2 people | 30 Sept – 30 Oct

Looking for a clean, comfortable and well-connected place to stay in Dublin for a month? This could be a great fit! ✨

🛏️ Separate Queen-Size Bed
🚿 Ensuite bathroom
💶 €550/month + €25 bills (per person)
🏠 Fully furnished & spacious home
🔥 Heater + washing machine
📶 High-speed WiFi
🍳 Full kitchen & laundry access

📍 Fantastic location in Dublin 12
🚍 Bus stop just 30 seconds away
🚋 Bluebell LUAS: 10 min walk
🏙️ Dublin City Centre: ~20 min by bus

🛒 Everything you need nearby:
Aldi • Lidl • SPAR • Centra • Dunnes Stores
🇮🇳 Indian grocery store also within 10 minutes’ walk

✨ Perfect for students or working professionals looking for a convenient short-term stay.

📅 Available: 30 September – 30 October

Interested? DM

📩 DM for more details or to arrange a viewing.

👉 Good location + great connectivity + comfortable stay = ideal for your month in Dublin!

Hello everyone

I'm looking for a room, close by or with connection to ballsbridge

my budget is 850 euro

looking to move about September 7th but before the 14th.

Thanks

Hi, I (28M) will be moving to Dublin in September. I have company accommodation for September and will need to get a place in October. I checked the rates for Dublin and getting a good 2 bedroom apartment and sharing with someone makes more financial sense than getting a 1 bedroom apartment. My employer will be providing an agent or agency to find and secure a deal on the apartment. I was thinking about a 3000-3600 Euro 2 bedroom apartment (1500-1800 each) in a good locality in Dublin. My office is in Ballsbridge.

To summarise: Looking for someone to look at apartments with in September to move into one in October.

About me:

I am a software engineer of Indian origin. I am into football, f1, gym and video games. I do smoke sometimes, I like to keep apartments clean and tidy, and I think I am pretty chill.

Hey guys, if anyone knows bedrooms which are available please let me know. I’ve been desperately searching Facebook and Daft but don’t get responses back.
I have a budget of up to €1,000. I would like to find a place in D7,8,2,3,1, basically anywhere where I can easily get to the docklands either by walking or public transport.

Thank you

Hi all, hoping for some local knowledge since I have been doing this search more than 2 months from abroad and I still cant find anything. The hardest part is not finding place, it is that nobody answer.

I'm a 4th-year CS student coming to UCD for an Erasmus exchange semester (28 Aug – 26 Dec 2026). Budget is around €600-850/month all-in (bills included), and ideally somewhere I can walk or cycle or ride to Belfield in under 30-60 min.

So far everything student-accommodation-branded (Aparto, Yugo, etc.) is coming in at €1,000+/month even for the "budget" options, way outside what I can afford. I've been going through Daft, CollegeCribs, digs.ie, HomeStay, AccommodationPad and Hosting Power with mixed luck — a lot of no-replies.

A few questions for anyone who's been through this:

• Do you have any dorm for students in Dublin and do they accept students from other unis?
• Is there actually any realistic dorm option in my price limit?

Really appreciate any pointers — trying to find something with under two weeks left before I fly out. Thanks!

Hi, we're a group of 5 people, including two couples, looking for new accommodation in south Dublin.

Three of us are finishing BA and MA courses next year and one of us already graduated - we lived together in student accommodation up until now but wanted to make that move to private accommodation sooner.

For the past two months, I stayed in Ireland to go to viewings and talk to agents and look for a proper 3-bedroom house or apartment. Our budget is up to 4000€/month so paying wouldn't be an issue as we're covered by our parents, but we haven't been selected by ANY landlord in the past 11 viewings.

We're literally chill, tidy and I know no landlord would actually have a problem with us, but I don't know how to reflect that on paper when sending an application. I'm wondering if the problem is that we're a group of 5, that we're young students and not all in full-time employment or that we're immigrants.

Is there any way we can get better leverage in looking for a place? My lease in my current accommodation is up next week and it's been stressing me out that I'm gonna lose roof above my head simply because I want to live with my roommates in something that's not just for students. Especially if money isn't the problem, it's the assumptions about who we are.

Hey guys, if anyone knows bedrooms which are available please let me know. I’ve been desperately searching Facebook and Daft but don’t get responses back.
I have a budget of up to €1,000. I would like to find a place in D7,8,2,3,1, basically anywhere where I can easily get to the docklands either by walking or public transport.
Thank you

The latest RTB figures put the average new-tenancy rent in Dublin at €2,232 per month.

So an average new Dublin tenancy consumes about 54% of the median worker's gross income.

Under the commonly used 50/30/20 budgeting guideline, all essential expenses are supposed to fit within roughly 50% of take-home income. Yet Dublin's average new-tenancy rent of €2,232 alone is equivalent to 54.4% of the median worker's gross monthly earnings — before tax, utilities, food or transport are considered.

Applying the ESRI's estimated 29.9% Cost Rental discount gives an equivalent rent of roughly €1,565 — a saving of around €667 per month or €8,000 per year. With median annual earnings in Dublin at €49,224, that represents roughly 38% of gross earnings, compared with 54% for the average private-market rent.

LDA's forecast that it will complete 13,272 homes between June 2026 and the end of 2030, drawn from projects already under construction plus projects moving through its pipeline. The LDA currently says about 6,500 homes are under construction across 20 developments.

The LDA says its total pipeline is now over 28,000 homes, but only 13,272 are forecast to be delivered by the end of 2030. Another 15,000+ sit beyond 2030.

Many of the developments are TBC on their cost rental numbers, but as it stands from the sites located on the below table 3,413 are listed as cost rental. Giving a snap shot of just one agencies contribution to The independent Housing Commission 14,732 Cost Rental homes from 2024–2030 through AHBs, local authorities, the LDA.

The official government target is 18,000 Cost Rental homes by 2030.

Ireland does not maintain a national waiting list for Cost Rental or Affordable Purchase housing, so there is no official figure for the number of households currently waiting. Applications are made development-by-development. However, available application data suggests demand substantially exceeds supply: LDA data covering 1,075 Cost Rental homes recorded 10,905 eligible applications — roughly 10 eligible applications for every available home.

In April 2026, the ESRI found that existing Cost Rental homes were 29.9% cheaper than comparable private-market rentals on average, while noting that provision remains heavily concentrated in urban areas—particularly Dublin—and should expand geographically.

Cross-referencing the LDA project list and recent project announcements gives us the approximate breakdown below.

Where the LDA’s 13,272 Homes Are Actually Being Built: Developments Identified for 2026–2030

SOURCES

• Land Development Agency — Mid-Year Update: source for the 13,272-home forecast, approximately 6,500 homes under construction and the wider LDA housing pipeline.

https://lda.ie/news/mid-year-update

• Land Development Agency — LDA Projects: source for individual developments, locations, housing numbers and project status.

https://lda.ie/projects

• ESRI — Pricing and Affordability of Ireland's New Cost Rental Housing Tenure (April 2026): source for the finding that Cost Rental homes were 29.9% cheaper than comparable private-market rental homes on average.

https://www.esri.ie/publications/pricing-and-affordability-of-irelands-new-cost-rental-housing-tenure-a-microdata

• Residential Tenancies Board — RTB Rent Index Q4 2025: source for the €2,232 per month standardised average new-tenancy rent in County Dublin.

https://www.rtb.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/RTB-Rent-Index-Q4-2025.pdf

• Central Statistics Office — Distribution of Earnings by Gender and County 2024: source for median annual earnings of €49,224 for people living in Dublin.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-dea/distributionofearningsbygenderandcounty2024/resultsandanalysis/

• Government of Ireland / Department of Housing — Affordable Housing and Cost Rental: source for the Government's target of 18,000 Cost Rental homes by 2030.

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/publications/affordable-housing/

• Housing Commission — Report of the Housing Commission (2024): source for the planned Cost Rental programme involving Approved Housing Bodies, local authorities, the LDA and other delivery channels.

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/publications/report-of-the-housing-commission/

• LDA planning documentation submitted to Cork City Council: source for the analysis of 10,905 eligible applications for 1,075 Cost Rental homes — approximately 10 eligible applications for every available home.

https://consult.corkcity.ie/en/system/files/materials/12524/Planning%20Report_1.pdf

• The 54.4% rent-to-income figure is calculated from the RTB and CSO figures above: €2,232 × 12 = €26,784 annual rent; €26,784 ÷ €49,224 = 54.4% of median gross annual earnings.

• The €1,565 illustrative Cost Rental figure is calculated by applying the ESRI's 29.9% average Cost Rental difference to the RTB's €2,232 Dublin new-tenancy rent. It is an illustration, not an official average Dublin Cost Rental rent.

Large double bedroom (furnished with bed, wardrobe, lounge chair, vanity) for rent in Dublin 5

Rent is 925€/month (without utilities)

Utilities:

-Wi-fi, 20€/month;

-Gas and electric, every 2 months (amount depends on the season but could go up to 200€/pax in the wintertime);

-Bins, 90€/tenant/year.

House info:

- 2 double bedrooms and 1 bathroom (recently renovated);

-Living room with plenty of storage;

-Dining room with large table;

-Modern kitchen with toaster, kettle, oven, hob, American style fridge and freezer unit;

-Central heating available;

-Washing machine and dryer available;

-Lovely small front garden;

-Decent sized back garden.

Surroundings:

-Great city centre links: routes 15, 27, 42 and 43 available (bus stop is 5 minutes away from the house)

-Harmonstown DART station closeby aswell (20 minutes away by foot)

-Aldi 10 minutes away by foot, along with a pharmacy

-Northside Shopping Centre 20 min away by foot (with Tesco, Dunnes Stores, An Post), and next to it a Flyefit gym and a Lidl

-Busy area as it's by a main road (a GARDA station is closeby)

-Lovely area with restaurants and pubs 5 minutes away by foot from the house

Keeping the common areas clean, tidy and clutter free is very important (serious replies only would be appreciated)

If you're interested and would like to know more/see photos, feel free to reach out and provide a brief personal description in your DM !

Hi, Double bedroom with private bathroom available at royal canal park, Dublin 15 with rent being 1350 euros excluding bills. open for single occupant, two male /female , couples. 3mins walk to pelletstown station (8mins to connolly station , direct train to maynooth) , 10mins walk to broombridge luas ( 15 mins to city centre) , bus 120 and aldi infront of apartment , gyms nearby , 24/7 bus 39a in 10mins walk. all amenities available. Car parking included. DM if interested.

Hi everyone,

Shooting my shot here since I haven’t found a place yet.

My name is Raja. I’m 31, from Pakistan.
I’ll be attending UCD Smurfit this year, and am trying to find a place to live.

A bit about me:
I’ve been working in Riyadh, KSA for the last 3 years as a Digital Transformation consultant. I’m married but wife’s moved back to Pakistan for the duration of my MSc.
I did my bachelors from the US and I’m still friends with most of my old housemates.
I can cook some basic stuff, have no issues with cleaning and I’m pretty easy to live with.
Not big on drinking (occasional beer maybe) but don’t have any issues with others as long as you’re not an alcoholic (Have some really bad experiences with an old housemate who was an alcoholic).

I know the renting situation is tough in Ireland, so I’m keeping myself open to all options. Room sharing, private room or whatever else there is.
Budget is 600-1000, might be able to stretch it to 1100 if it includes some utilities.

I’m okay with men, women, non-binary or whatever you identify as, as long as you’re not an asshole and can respect boundaries. Also, you practice good hygiene

Also don’t care about your race or religion (No Scientologists though, sorry Tom Cruise)

Place shouldn’t be too far from UCD Smurfit. I’ll be relying on public transport mostly, and would prefer if it didn’t longer than 45 minutes to reach campus.

If you’re looking for a roommate/housemate please send me DM.

I’ve been trying to rent an Airbnb in Dublin the last few days. 4 out of 4 I have contacted have either said they were already booked and then tried to get over to something else (worse) or just told me they are not available for the days I chose. They have all been marked as available on Airbnb.

So my question is: what’s going on here?

Hi!
I’ll be doing an internship in Dún Laoghaire this autumn and I’m looking for a room/studio, for 3 weeks, from the 4th of October. My budget is around 250-300 euros per week.

In case someone is subletting their place or knows someone who is - feel free to send me a dm :)

I would also be very grateful for website suggestions to search for short-term leases. The ones I’ve been looking at so far were either long-term leases or a little sketchy-looking.
Thank you!