Rooms for Rent in Dublin

A shared-home listing carries the rent and its currency, what the rent covers, the floor area, whether the room is furnished, the dates it is available, the minimum stay, who is letting it (a roommate, an owner or an agency) and how many people already live there. Twenty-four amenities are ticked, from wifi to a private bathroom, and the household states its house rules, its languages and where it stands on pets and smoking. All of that can be read before writing.

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.

The area name a listing shows is worked out from its approximate location on the map. One address in Dublin goes by three names depending on habit: by postal district, by the area people call it, or by the town when the home sits outside the city proper.

How many people already live there appears on the listing. Sharing with one person and sharing with four are not the same undertaking, and the question settles before the exchange rather than at the viewing.

The list of rooms for rent filters on price, dates, minimum stay, furnished or not, pets, smoking and spoken languages; with Quoloc Plus, also on the kind of household, the twenty-four amenities, the type of property, who is letting and how many roommates are already there. Moving the map narrows the list to what is in view.

Spoken languages matter more as a filter in Dublin than in most places. Students arrive from across Europe, and a share can run entirely in English while nobody in it grew up speaking it first.

Dragging the map north or south of the Liffey changes the list without touching a single other setting, the most direct way to compare the two banks on one budget.

More than one town hall answers 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 may therefore fall under a different authority than the city's own.

For the city proper, Dublin City Council, the local authority of the city, whose sixty-three members are elected by single transferable vote sits.

Nationally, 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) publishes the written reference, and the page for that is rtb.ie.

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.

A first message that gives the arrival date, the length of stay in mind and what brings you to Dublin gets answered more often than one that only asks whether the room is still going.

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

The median is used rather than the average: two unusual listings are enough to move an average, but not a median.

No division of Dublin into areas carries authority for this page. Postal districts were drawn up to deliver post, then folded into Eircode, the national postal code: useful for orientation, not a boundary of any market.