Hundreds queue for hours to view just ONE rental property in Dublin as the Irish capital's housing shortage reaches crisis point

Over 150 potential tenants queued to view a single rental property in Dublin last night as Ireland grapples with a housing crisis.

A long queue formed along St Brendans Road in Dublin on Tuesday night, with over 100 people queuing for a viewing at the three-bedroom house at 8.30pm.

Within 30 minutes, even as the sun set, a further 50 people joined the queue to view the property, which costs €1,850 a month, in the city.

Conor Finn, who posted footage of the long queues, tweeted that he had waited for an hour in the queue before leaving without viewing the property.

'An hour later and I've left the queue after no real movement or chance of viewing the house tonight,' Finn said on Tuesday night at 9.30pm. 'People were still joining the end of the queue as I left.'

Ireland's economy is booming as the republic offers low corporation tax rates to tech and pharmaceutical companies such as Google - and pandemic-enhanced revenues from those companies has meant the republic is enjoying a €8bn corporate tax windfall.

But employees from these companies have flooded into the country, meaning the demand for properties in Ireland have soared. They are also able to afford to pay higher prices for houses and renting a property, meaning costs have soared.

This, coupled with a shortage of properties, has meant Ireland is facing a housing crisis and one estate agents in Dublin have even had to introduce a lottery system for viewings after they received 1,200 applications for one home.

{Over 150 potential tenants queued to view a single rental property in Dublin last night as Ireland grapples with a housing crisis}

{A long queue formed along a street in Dublin on Tuesday night, with over 100 people queuing for a house viewing at around 8.30pm}

{A long queue formed along a street in Dublin on Tuesday night, with over 100 people queuing for a house viewing at around 8.30pm}

Demand for rental accommodation in Dublin has grown from already sky high levels in recent months - to such a degree that Ireland's largest private landlord could have recently filled a new apartment block 30 times over, its chief executive said on Thursday.

Chronic supply shortages pushed Irish rental properties to a new record low this month, with just 716 homes available to a population of 5.1 million people as of August 1, property website Daft.ie said

in a report on Wednesday last week.

Irish Residential Properties REIT (IRES) Chief Executive Margaret Sweeney told Reuters that it received 600 requests to view 20 new apartments it listed last month near Dublin's city centre. The 61-unit development was fully occupied within a week of the builders completing the project, she added.

We're definitely seeing much greater demand, there is a real shortage of good available accommodation. We've seen it increasing month-on-month,' Sweeney said in a telephone interview.

'It's coming through in the fundamentals, unemployment is even lower than it was pre-COVID, there's been quite strong FDI (foreign direct investment). We've a very young population as well as less emigration than previous decades.'

Estate agents Brock Delappe in Dublin said they have been forced to operate a 'lottery system' when choosing who can view properties because they have been inundated with applications.

{Within 30 minutes, even as the sun set, a further 50 people joined the queue to view the property in the city.}

 {Within 30 minutes, even as the sun set, a further 50 people joined the queue to view the property in the city}

 {Ireland is facing a housing crisis due to a shortage in houses coupled with soaring demand}

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