Average rent of three-bedroom house up 4.4%

In Cavan, the average rent of a three-bedroom house in the third quarter of 2025 was €1449, up 4.4% on a year ago.

A search of daft.ie yesterday afternoon shows there are eighteen properties for rent in the entire county of Cavan.

A three bed, one bath home in Swelllan Court, Cavan town is listed at €2,100 per month, while another property, a three bed one bath apartment in Virginia is on daft.ie for €1,300 monthly.

Nationally, market rents rose by an average of 1.7% in the third quarter of 2025, according to the latest Rental Report by Daft.ie, making this the eighteenth consecutive quarter of rising rents.

Market rents are now one third higher than their pre-covid levels and two thirds higher than their Celtic Tiger peak in late 2007.

The average monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment nationwide, between June and September, was €2,080.

There were just over 1,900 homes available to rent nationwide on November 1, which is down 21% year-on-year and less than half the average for the period 2015-2019.

In Dublin, the stock of homes to rent is down by almost one third, year-on-year.

The report shows that rental inflation remains lower in Dublin than the national average, with prices rising by 2.7% in the capital compared to 4.3% nationally.

In Cork city, rents are up 9.3% year-on-year, while in Galway and Limerick cities, rents are up by 6%.

In Waterford city, rents are up 11.4% year on year. Outside the cities, the rate of inflation is just above 5%.

Commenting on the report, Ronan Lyons Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, said the "sharp fall" in availability of homes to rent suggests that any further pressure on rents over the coming quarters will be upwards.

"While it will take years, significant amounts of new rental supply all around the country are required to change conditions in the rental market."