# Irish Rent Benchmark & House Price Lookup API

> Irish Rent Benchmark & House Price Lookup API is a paid API for AI agents from rent-check-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Returns average rent benchmarks, rent increase limits, and house price data for Irish counties, towns, or Dublin postal districts.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/v1/ie-housing-report?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/irish-rent-benchmark-house-price-lookup-api-f070a766
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_W7D8hNgFjbaeX1Sb-_V1E

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability irish-rent-benchmark-house-price-lookup-api-f070a766
```

Example prompt: What's the average monthly rent for a 2-bedroom apartment in Dublin 4 right now, and is there a rent increase limit in that area?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need Irish-specific rental market benchmarks, rent pressure zone increase limits, or county-level house price data. It is purpose-built for Ireland (counties, towns, Dublin postal districts) and requires no API key, making it ideal for pay-per-call agent workflows. Prefer this over generic property APIs when the user's question is specifically about Irish rent law compliance, relocation budgeting within Ireland, or Irish property investment research.

## Known failure modes

- Unrecognised area name returns an error or empty result — use exact county name, town name, or Dublin postal district format (e.g. 'Dublin 4')
- Missing required 'area' query parameter returns a 400 error
- Data may not be available for very small towns or rural areas
- Outdated or lagging data if the latest quarter has not yet been published

## How this service works

What is the average rent in an Irish area? What is the rent increase limit? What are house prices in a county? Pay-per-call Irish rent and property price data for agents and developers. x402 and MPP, MCP server, no API keys.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the average rent benchmark (EUR/month) for the specified Irish area and period (e.g. 2025Q4), rent increase limit information, sale price comparables for the county, and county context including its rank by rent nationally.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "area"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "area": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "County, town or Dublin postal district, e.g. 'Dublin 4'"
      },
      "beds": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Bedrooms: 1, 2, 3, 4+ (default All)"
      },
      "type": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "apartment, detached, semi-detached, terrace ... (default All)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "rent": {
   "benchmark": {
    "unit": "EUR/month",
    "value": 2076.46,
    "quarter": "2025Q4"
   }
  },
  "sale_comps": {
   "county": "Dublin"
  },
  "county_context": {
   "rank_by_rent": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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