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Average monthly rent nationwide for a two-bedroom apartment was €2,176 in the first quarter, Daft.ie report shows

Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Increase in rents has coincided with Government’s new rent control system coming into force in March

The scale of the latest increase in the cost of new tenancies is worrying but it remains to be seen if supply can rise

Inside Politics: Taoiseach questioned nature of property-group report while elsewhere, RTÉ faced a familiar line of questioning

In the middle of an acute housing crisis, is it clever to have most housing stock set aside for Airbnbs and short-term rentals?