A comment from a reader by email, posted with permission:

“I just wondered if you compared the PRTB’s figures for “average rent in each postcode during the third quarter of 2015″ to the reality of what is being offered on Daft and My Home.

I recently took my landlord to a PRTB adjudication because the rent on my one bedroom apartment in Dublin 8 was to be increased from €1100 to €1800 a month. When the adjudicator was trying to asses market value in the area she called out what, according to the PRTB was the rent for a one bed in Dublin 8, the figure was around the €900 mark. She straight away dismissed this figure and looked at actual rents being charged on daft etc. We all agreed that the figures provided by the prtb weren’t even close to reality, and irrelevant.

Therefore looking at your article, I would love to see a new analysis based on the reality of rents in Dublin.

The outcome of my case was €1550 for a one bedroom in Dublin 8. It’s in the nicer part and bigger than most. But for the €900 a month, being what the PRTB thinking average rents for a one bedpan my area, this would be the cheapest in the area, quite rare, and in most cases closer to a bed sit.

I really like the idea of the information illustrated in a map but I think the situation is a lot worse and the PRTB figures are not to be relied on and do not represent the truth of the matter.”