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The Rentalize Quarterly: Issue 001, Spring 2026
Our inaugural newsletter covering Ireland cost rental programme reaching 4,500 homes, PropTech record funding year, the Irish rental market snapshot, and more.
Issue 002 of The Rentalize Quarterly is out. This summer edition is a mid-programme assessment of Ireland’s cost rental push, alongside the March 2026 rent reforms and the latest market data.
In This Issue
- Lead Story: Scaling for 18,000. Registered cost rental tenancies pass 5,226, up 87% in a year per the RTB, and the ESRI confirms rents run 29.9% below market. But spring 2026 also brought the model’s first real viability test.
- Policy & Regulation: The Residential Tenancies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026 explained: the national rent cap of CPI or 2%, six-year tenancies of minimum duration, and the new RTB Rent Register.
- PropTech & Investment: Global PropTech funding rebounds to $3.3 billion in Q1 2026, up 64% year on year, while Irish property investment tops 1 billion euro in Q2.
- Case Study: 4,600 applications in one week. Inside Rentalize’s first local authority deployment.
- Market Dashboard: The latest Daft.ie, RTB and CSO indicators for the Irish rental market, each labelled with its source and period.
- International Lens: Vienna, Denmark and Finland, the three European models Ireland’s cost rental tenure is built on.
- Product Spotlight: Rentalize Select and the new Cost Rental Allocation Plans under Section 31A of the Affordable Housing Act 2021.
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