The Rentalize Quarterly: Issue 002, Summer 2026

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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