Apartments for Rent in Dublin

A whole-home listing carries the rent and its currency, what the rent covers, the floor area, how many rooms and bedrooms, which story, whether there is a lift and parking, whether it comes furnished, the dates and the minimum stay.

The map on a listing shows a five-hundred-meter circle around the home, never an exact point: Quoloc does not publish the address, and only the person advertising can choose to give it in the exchange. A Street View tab shows the street where coverage exists.

Which story a home sits on reads on the listing, and in Dublin that changes the heating more often than the view: much of the housing stock is low, and a ground floor does not compare with a top floor at the same rent.

The postal district (numbered one to twenty-four) is a question for whoever published. Eircode points at one exact address: Quoloc never shows it, and it is given in the conversation.

Bedroom count splits two markets that do not carry the same price per square meter. With Quoloc Plus, the bedroom filter splits them too.

Two listings at one rent do not carry the same monthly load once the bills land. What the rent covers is declared on the listing and compares before the viewing.

Floor area and bedroom count both show on every listing, and with Quoloc Plus, the list also filters on the number of bedrooms. A small two-bedroom and a large studio meet at the same price often enough in Dublin to be worth checking both.

Dragging the map narrows the list to what is on screen, which compares two banks or two districts without changing a single other setting.

Four local governments answer to the name Dublin: the name Dublin covers four local authorities (the city's and three neighbors') which together make up the traditional county. A home advertised as being in Dublin does not necessarily fall under the city.

Within the city boundary the seat is Dublin City Council, the local authority of the city, whose sixty-three members are elected by single transferable vote.

The country's written reference comes from the Residential Tenancies Board, the independent public body that regulates Ireland's rental sector and tells tenants and landlords what their rights and responsibilities are, whose page is rtb.ie.

Every listing declares what its rent covers, and nothing counts as included by default.

Heating weighs more in Dublin than in cities further south, and a home with heating included does not compare with one where it lands on top.

Parking is ticked or it is not. In the central districts it is missing more often than present, and the listing says which.

Every listing carries a public comment thread. A reply cannot itself receive a reply: the thread stays one level deep.

A question asked in a comment helps whoever comes next: what gets asked often ends up written on the listing itself.

Exchanges happen in the site's messaging. You can write from the moment you register, without the other person having to allow anything: a published listing and a published profile are both contactable. Messages stay grouped and the history remains available.

One and the same detector runs over listings, messages, comments and profiles. It recognizes an email address, a phone number, a social media handle and a web address, including ones written to fool a machine: an address broken up with "(at)" and "(dot)" is caught, and so is a number spaced out digit by digit. The exchange therefore stays where reporting and blocking exist.

Every listing and every profile carries a report button, and a report keeps its state until it is closed. A person can also be blocked, and the block runs both ways: the person blocked receives no notification and simply can no longer write to whoever blocked them, or comment on their listings or profile.