50% of Galway households rent

Iwannahurl

"Of the 27,697 permanent households in the city, 13,716 are rented accommodation."

For me this raises questions regarding ownership of rented properties, and whether the properties are all registered.

https://portal.prtb.ie/public_registrations.aspx

syklops

snubbleste wrote: »

Asking prices on daft ain't the same as the actual price paid. Refine your search to 'galway city council' and see if the figure drops.

Where is that Galway City Council option? I will be looking to rent a house in Galway in the next couple of months. Just did a search there and there is only 4 1-3 bed houses under 700

El_Dangerous wrote:

Just had a quick check and that index seems way off. I think some landlords might be lying to the taxman.

For example for a 3 bed house in Galway city (presuming this includes all the suburbs) the average is 659.

A quick search on Daft for 3 beds under 700 yields only 7 properties. Compare that to the 161 3 beds above 700 euro and I have no idea how the index comes to such a low average.

I agree that index seems way off, unless they know of some cheap accommodation that we don't know about. Surely for the average to be less than 700, to off set all the high rents in Galway, you would have to have either a number of very cheap rents or a large number of rents below 700, but a search on daft for me as I said above only finds 4 properties below 700.

snubbleste

I did a search for three bed in Galway
All property types- Three bed- Galway (City Council)
2012Q1 833.25
2012Q2 832.34
2012Q3 852.90
2012Q4 837.15
2013Q1 844.22

One of the reasons the PRTB average rent index might be lower is because of rent supplement. The maximum rent that can be charged for a three bed is €725.

I'm confused now!

El_Dangeroso

What am I doing wrong in the search?

I am clicking on semi-detatched:

snubbleste

I chose 'All Property Types' to get my figures.