Average rent of three-bed in Kildare was €2,382 in third quarter of 2025, up 8% on a year ago

In Kildare, the average rent of a three-bedroom house in the third quarter of 2025 was €2,382, up 8% on a year ago.

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, 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.

With the Daft.ie Report celebrating twenty years, this latest report sees a revamped report, with an updated methodology and new metrics on room rents, as well as rentals of full properties. Measures of rents on a like-for-like basis over time area available, nationally and regionally, extending back to the early 2000s – for both full properties and for room rentals.

There were just over 1,900 homes available to rent nationwide on November 1st. This 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 new-look report, its author Ronan Lyons, Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, said:  “For all the work involved in the new report, however, the picture remains unchanged – this is a market starved of supply. Rents are now one third higher than they were just over five years ago and indeed two thirds higher than their Celtic Tiger peak. The easing off of inflation – from over 13% in 2022 to 4.3% now – has been welcome. However, 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.”

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