Cost Rental Guide
How Cost Rental works in Ireland: eligibility, rents, providers, and current schemes.
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LDA Cost Rental Management Software
The Land Development Agency delivers cost rental at scale through state-owned and partner-developed sites. LDA cost rental tenancies have specific eligibility, rent-setting, and reporting rules. Rentalize is the platform LDA partners use to manage applications, allocations, and ongoing tenancy administration.
FEATURES
What LDA Cost Rental needs from your software
Income-tested eligibility (€66,000 Dublin, €59,000 elsewhere)
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
Cost-based rent calculation, 25 percent below market
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
Tenant priority queue and offer management
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
CREL drawdown reporting
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
Housing Agency cost rental reporting
Built into Rentalize and used in production by Irish housing bodies and local authorities.
Built for: Land Development Agency partners, Approved Housing Bodies, and local authorities delivering cost rental on LDA sites.
Why Rentalize for LDA Cost Rental
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