The rental market has never been this bad, according to a Dublin estate agent.
It comes as renters scramble to find accommodation following the lifting of the eviction ban.
Reporter Josh Crosbie has been out meeting with renters in Dublin for The Pat Kenny Show.
Cian is a trainee accountant, originally from Galway but has been living in Dublin for 10 years.
He said he got a call from his landlord as soon as the ban ended.
"A couple of weeks ago, when the Government said they were planning to lift the eviction ban, we got a phone call from the landlord straight away to say that they'd be putting the house on the market," he said.
He was told they would get a maximum of six months before having to vacate.
"They got the valuers in last week; and I'd say if they get a good offer in the next couple of months, they'll probably ask us to leave," he said.
'Meath, Maynooth - whatever'
Cian said he has been on rental websites "every day" since then.
"I would like to stay in Dublin 7 just because my work is here, and I've been here for the last 10 years," he said.
"It doesn't look possible that we're going to get a place here.
"We'd take anything we could get at the minute... Meath or Maynooth or whatever.
"I don't know what our options would be if they do get an offer on the house".
'It's not affordable'
Cian said the average prices are not affordable.
"For a studio one-bed, it's minimum €1,200 - this is the cheapest one we've seen today - but they can go anywhere up to €2,500," he said.
"It's way out of our price range, it's not affordable at all at the moment".
'I'm emailing everyone'
Joanne is originally from Brazil and works in finance.
She said she has been finding it very difficult.
"You send 150 emails on Daft, maybe you get one reply," she said.
"I got this reply and it's been three months that I'm emailing everyone on Daft".
Joanne said she is leaving her current accommodation, a bedroom in a house, as the rent went too high.
"It's €1,250 for a bedroom in Smithfield... the landlord [asked] us to pay cash only - all of us.
"In this accommodation [there] was four girls. He would come here and count [it] in front of you".
'It really is a crisis'
Karl O'Reilly is a property manager at Brock DeLappe Estate Agents.
"I actually have never seen it this bad, and I'm working 16 years in the rental business," he said.
"There's line of people every single day looking for places... and it really is a crisis out there at the moment".
Mr O'Reilly said they have to set limits on property viewings.
"You can't invite everybody to a viewing - you can invite 100 people [but] they wouldn't be able to see it, we wouldn't be able to get out," he said.
"It's intimidating for people to go and see properties, so we always try and make sure - and for safety reasons - there's a limit to the number of people that we can show".
Asked what advice he would give people looking, he said: "I would say pray, for sure.
"Go to the viewings; persistence, at the moment, is the key.
"If you can have everything in order after the viewing, make up your mind pretty quick.
"At the moment, tenants only have literally a couple of minutes to look at a property.
"If they decide quickly, get all their references together and keep going to viewings and then hopefully it will unlock," he added.
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