Build to rent popular among young

Consultant firm Linesight said within the 29% of Irish people now renting, two-thirds of that group were aged 25 and 44, one of the highest rates in the EU.

Pádraig Hoare

There is a compelling need for more investment in the build-to-rent housing model with vastly increasing numbers of young people preferring to rent rather than owning homes outright, a new report has said.