The website HowMuchRent.com is championing a fairer and more transparent ecosystem for renters. Tenants openly share their rental experiences, building a database of historical rents and first-hand property insights. Given that rent is often the most significant monthly expense for individuals, HowMuchRent.com endeavours to provide renters with crucial context before making a new place a home. We are committed to preserving the narrative of countless rental stories, both positive and negative, that would otherwise remain untold.
Unlike platforms that primarily serve landlords, HowMuchRent.com is built with the tenant at the forefront. We offer a comprehensive view of the rental market, featuring historical rental prices, detailed property reviews, and ratings. We invite everyone navigating the Irish rental market to join our mission of promoting transparency and accountability by contributing their reviews and rents to HowMuchRent.com Our dedication to fostering a culture of transparency aims to mitigate the challenges posed by less reputable participants in the Irish rental sector.
Our efforts are particularly concentrated on Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs). We’ve identified over 1,000 properties charging rates over 2% in recent months, underlining our commitment to advocating for fair pricing. In an innovative move, we've transcribed over 15,000 Residential Tenancies Board judgements. This allows users to determine if a landlord or tenant has previously been involved in legal disputes, such as issues concerning deposit returns, evictions, or unpaid bills. While these reports are publicly available on the RTB website in PDF format(meaning that Google does not index the reports), we uniquely integrate them into our platform, making them accessible and viewable on HowMuchRent.com.
We firmly believe that rental charges and deposit handling require reform. We advocate for all rents charged by landlords to be public information and for tenants deposits to be held in escrow. The RTB was mandated to offer a Rental Deposit scheme 9 years ago(https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41315608.html), yet no action has been taken since. We continue to push for these changes to ensure a fairer rental market for all. Thanks for joining us.
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| Full Description | Address of the Place | View Place on Map | View This Place's Price History |
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| There’s a studio out the back rented out to another person. Not ideal for a car parking situation. First was the leaking roof in the kitchen. Was attempted to be fixed multiple times, still leaked until the day we moved out. The garden was ok, until they had ripped out the original wood flooring and we got left out with patchy bricks layed out from under. Were promised to have it fixed, again years passed of us living there, rent going up but was never fixed. Mold, a big problem in the house. The windows are wooden so don’t keep the heat in properly, they have mold ingrown in them. Mold in every room. There was a leak into the attic which was patched up by a wood plank. Heating. Enormous bills came with the prices up. As heat never stayed in. The actual heating system is so old that is loosing so much gas outside, you can smell it every time it works but there no visible leak. Bathroom flooring cracked in the main bathroom due to the leak from the bathtub. The bathtub broke right in the middle was not fixed since reported and then the house was put in the market for sale. | 16, Castlefield Green, Dublin 16, Dublin | View Place on Map | View This Place's Price History |
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