Outrage as Dublin rental causes major confusion
If you’re looking to rent, every trip to Daft.ie can be summed up by that Mick McCarthy interview clip when asked if it can get any worse — it can.
With the average price of rent soaring to around €1,700 a month last year, and with demand far and away outweighing supply, some people are having to settle for houses/apartments that you wouldn’t be able to swing a dead cat around, paying four figures for the “pleasure” of doing so.
And while this apartment in Dublin 12 isn’t necessarily bad at a first glance, the twist that is the bedroom is what has people talking.
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The bedroom is actually quite impressive at first glance — with a nice double bed, computer set up and privacy curtains.
But that’s where people realise that everything’s not what it seems in the home — as it turns out that the ‘bedroom’ is actually the dining room, with a privacy curtain.
And to add insult to injury, the ‘bedroom’ is €850 a month, while the house is owner-occupied.
The bedroom is actually quite nice, and the privacy curtain is a good idea as this is a studio… only, it’s not a studio apartment, rather a dining room in a house that’s owner-occupied. Pic: Daft
The listing was shared on the Renting in Ireland subreddit, where people initially believed that the rental was a studio apartment; expressing their shock at the fact that not only was it a dining room, but the house was shared and owner-occupied.
‘I think we all had the same thought: “Hey that’s a damn nice studio. Wait a minute…WHAT?!”‘ one commented, while another wrote: ‘Sorry if this is a stupid question – this isn’t an enclosed room? The only privacy is a curtain around the bed?’
Others were shocked at the price, with one commenting: ‘850 a month? That’s heinous,’ with one person responding: ‘If you’re going to be landlord occupied, renting a bed in an open spaces area and right beside the kitchen, you should be heavily discounting on the price.’
Dinning room converted to bedroom fenced with curtainsbyu/Itsminn inRentingInDublin
If you’re looking to buy, you’re not having much of a better time either — as a group of new build homes in Limerick hit the market for an eye-watering sum.
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