Cost Rental Guide
How Cost Rental works in Ireland: eligibility, rents, providers, and current schemes.
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Cost Rental Tenant Journey Software
Cost rental applicants in Ireland navigate a multi-step journey: eligibility check, application, supporting documentation, allocation, offer acceptance, and move-in. Rentalize ships a tenant-facing portal that handles every stage with status visibility and reduced council/AHB workload.
FEATURES
What Cost Rental Tenant Journey needs from your software
Public eligibility self-check with income limits (€66k Dublin, €59k elsewhere)
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
Online application with document upload
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
Allocation status tracking
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
Offer letter and acceptance flow
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
Move-in coordination with key handover scheduling
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
Built for: Cost rental applicants and the AHB / LDA / local authority teams operating the schemes.
Why Rentalize for Cost Rental Tenant Journey
Rentalize is built in Ireland and serves Irish housing bodies, local authorities, and AHB partners as its primary market. The Affordable Housing Act 2021, the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019, and the Planning and Development Act Part V are not adapted from a UK product. They are native to the platform.
In production today: 500+ units managed across cost rental, HAP, AHB, and Part V tenancies. 4,600 applications processed in a single week. The scale is real; the scheme support is real.
Free: 25-page Cost Rental Operations Playbook for Irish Housing Bodies
The operational guide for AHBs, the LDA, and local authorities. Eligibility (€66k Dublin / €59k elsewhere), CREL and STAR funding, allocation lottery, cost-recovering rent setting, RTB registration, AHBRA / NOAC compliance reporting. 25 pages. Print, walk through your scheme, file as your readiness record. No email gate.
Download the Playbook (PDF, 25 pages) Book a Scheme Demo