Many people in Dublin have to rent an apartment. The real estate rental market is always overheated, a very small apartment in the center costs from €700. Most IT-specialists with their families rent two-bedroom apartments for €1,300 and more. Now, they say, you won't find anything decent for less than €1500. Anything that is listed cheaper attracts a crowd of potential tenants, sometimes more than 10 people per view. At the same time, prices continue to grow steadily from year to year.

Rent is very expensive in the capital. This is due to the 2008 crisis. The construction then froze. People were unable to pay off loans (and all young people live on credit), banks went bankrupt, construction organizations collapsed. The sector had just started to wake up. But demand still significantly exceeds supply. On average, for a house (a two-story townhouse, in Dublin many live in such) you need to pay € 1400 per month. You will get three small bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, your own patio - and this is not the most prestigious area. In general, it's expensive. Even for the IT-specialist. In Ireland, it is customary to live like this: you give a third of your earnings to housing, another third to related expenses, and the rest goes to travel and savings.

And some more expenses. € 1,500 per year - the so-called management fee - community fees of the owners' association. This includes site maintenance, garbage collection, home insurance. In townhouses, sometimes there is no such fee, in which case all these costs are paid individually.
The cost of housing is about € 200 thousand. 10% is the first installment, € 5 thousand was spent on taxes and commissions for operations, and the remaining amount was given on credit at 4% for 35 years. It cost € 750 a month. That is, an Irishman with an average salary spends about a tenth of his monthly income on housing and communal services. And in summer, without heating, it is about € 100. Communal payments here does not hit the wallet hard. But there is a nuance: this is also the case because the Irish are used to living in the cold. They are cool in summer, and in winter they do not heat much - 18, maximum 20 degrees indoors.

Electricity bills come every 2 months, ranging from €150 to €300. The cheapest wired internet is €45. Until 2015, water was free, then it became about €150 per person per year. There were massive protests in this regard, but the tariffs were not canceled. Those who have gas boilers are paid another €100-200 per month.

The price of housing also includes an underground parking space. There is parking in the adjacent territory. In residential areas, there are no problems with this, since the population density is low due to low-level buildings.

Nearby there are townhouses, and more multy-appartment building, there are also individual houses. That is, the development is diverse, for different needs and prosperity. Nearby are several golf courses, a shopping center, and convenient transport to the city center - the Luas tram, which means speed in Irish.

Interests on mortgages are low - 3-4%. A decent two-room apartment or adjacent house within the city will cost from 200 thousand euros. Now it has already come to the point that those who want to buy housing line up right on the street.