Samples

What the report looks like before you order one

Fourteen real reports, one for each situation people bring us. The register data is real for the date on each report; the people are made up, and the address, Eircode, RT numbers and search references are blacked out. The report you get carries them in full.

Landlords and agents (7)Tenants (7)

Landlords and agents

Letting Price Report for a home about to be let, Rent Review Report for a sitting tenant. Both come with the RTB notice filled in and the register printout to attach.

Letting Price Report

Letting a home for the first time

A 4-bed house in Glasheen, Cork, empty for three years. No rent in mind.

·Two figures on one scale: €2,700 from the three closest homes, €2,980 where the upper quarter of the close matches begins, and what each rests on.
·The Notice of Rent Setting filled in with the rule, three RT numbers and attachments.
·Appendix A: every one of the 80 registered tenancies read, with the reason each is in or out.

Report (PDF, 9 pages)Notice of Rent Setting (PDF, 6 pages)

Letting Price Report

The tenant left; neighbours ask €2,800 on Daft

A 2-bed apartment in Inchicore, Dublin 8. The last tenant paid €1,650 for four years.

·The register supports about €2,480 for this home; €2,800 is €320 a month above anything similar, and the report says what a tenant could argue.
·Why market rent is allowed here: the tenant gave notice and left, so the cap from €1,650 does not apply.

Report (PDF, 12 pages)

Letting Price Report

A letting agent pricing a unit, under the agency's own name

A 2-bed 75 m² B3 apartment in Killiney - Shankill, prepared by a fictional agency, Marlay Lettings.

·White label: the agency's name, PSRA licence and contact on every page and on the notice. RentPrices does not appear.
·Three close matches of the same size and BER within €200 of each other, so one figure with no second zone.

Report (PDF, 11 pages)

Rent Review Report

Rent review for a sitting tenant: the cap binds

The same Killiney apartment, tenant paying €2,100 for 14 months. The owner wants €2,300.

·The most the rent may go to: €2,149, current rent plus 2.33% (the lower of 2% a year and inflation). The market figure of €2,550 is shown but does not apply.
·What €2,300 would mean: €151 a month above the cap, open to challenge, and the sanction the RTB can impose.
·The Notice of Rent Review filled in, Part F completed by the agent, with the calculator and register printouts to attach.

Report (PDF, 11 pages)Notice of Rent Review (PDF, 7 pages)

Letting Price Report

After a substantial refurbishment: the exemption holds

A 2-bed apartment in Ballinteer, Dublin 16. Previous rent €1,700; primary energy cut from 310 to 140 kWh/m² a year.

·The energy test passed (a drop of 170, the law needs 150), so market rent applies: about €2,570 from the register.
·What to keep as proof of the works and both BER certificates, in case the tenant asks the RTB to check.

Report (PDF, 11 pages)

Letting Price Report

After a refurbishment that does not meet the test

The same Ballinteer apartment, but energy only down from 310 to 200 and one qualifying work of five listed.

·Why the exemption fails on the figures given: 110 short of 150 on energy, one work where the other route needs three.
·The rent is capped at €1,756.67 from the previous €1,700. The market figure stays in the report for reference only.

Report (PDF, 10 pages)

Letting Price Report

A rural home where the register is thin

A 3-bed house near Brosna, Co. Kerry, no BER, empty for two years.

·Only 8 close matches and they spread from €1,200 to €1,750: the report says so on page 1 instead of pretending to precision.
·Which records had to be accepted to reach three, and the national size and BER multipliers used because the local sample is too small to measure.

Report (PDF, 11 pages)

Price my home Rent review for a sitting tenant

Tenants

Rent Check Report: your rent or a notice against every similar home let here, the legal limit, the deadlines, and the words to use.

Rent Check Report

I live here, no notice yet: am I overpaying, and what comes next?

A 3-bed apartment in Pembroke, Dublin 6, €1,800 a month since September 2024, never changed.

·Where €1,800 sits among 22 similar new lettings: well below the median of €3,435. Nothing to claim on the level.
·The next increase: at most €1,872 (2% a year), and the notice rules the landlord has to follow.

Report (PDF, 9 pages)

Rent Check Report

A rent increase notice above the legal limit

A 3-bed house in Tallaght, €1,500 since March 2023. A notice for €1,700 with three RT numbers.

·The legal maximum is €1,605, so the notice is €95 a month over: how that is worked out, and the deadline to refer it.
·The three RT numbers the landlord cited, checked one by one: two of the three are not similar homes, and even the ones that are cannot lift the rent above the cap.
·The words for the landlord and the RTB dispute type.

Report (PDF, 10 pages)

Rent Check Report

An increase two years ago was above the cap: €2,812 overpaid

A 4-bed house in Glasheen, Cork. €1,300 from January 2023, raised to €1,500 in February 2025 when the limit was €1,352.

·The limit at the date of the increase, the excess of €148 a month, and the total paid above it since.
·The RTB Calculation of Overpaid Rent form filled in, ready to hand to the landlord or attach to a dispute.

Report (PDF, 9 pages)Calculation of Overpaid Rent (PDF, 1 page)

Rent Check Report

Looking at a listing before signing

A 2-bed house in Bray, €2,300 asked.

·The asking rent against 5 similar new lettings: €31 above the €2,269 the register defends, below the single highest.
·The two homes that let for more once recomputed, and what to ask the agent before signing.

Report (PDF, 8 pages)

Rent Check Report

Moved out two weeks ago; was the rent too high?

A 3-bed apartment in Galway City West, €1,900 from May 2024, tenancy ended 8 September 2026.

·The rent was within the market for a home like this, so nothing to claim on the level, said plainly.
·The 28-day window a former tenant has to refer a dispute, with the date it closes.

Report (PDF, 8 pages)

Rent Check Report

A notice backed by an agent's letter instead of three RT numbers

A 4-bed house in Donaghmede, Dublin 13, €2,400 a month. Notice for €2,440, within the cap, with a valuer's letter attached.

·The increase itself is within the limit, but section 22(2A)(d) requires three registered tenancies: a valuation is not the form the law names.
·What that means for the notice, and the exact words to put to the landlord.

Report (PDF, 14 pages)

Rent Check Report

Looking at a house where the register is thin

A 3-bed house near Brosna, Co. Kerry, €1,400 asked.

·6 similar new lettings, median €1,631: the asking rent is within the market, and the report says the set is small rather than calling it a case.

Report (PDF, 10 pages)

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