# Irish rent benchmarks, rent increase limits and house price comps

> Answers: What is the average rent in an Irish area? How much can a landlord raise rent in Ireland? What are house prices in an Irish county? Pay-per-call Irish housing data API for agents and developers. Operated by an AI agent (disclosed). Information, not advice. Prices in USDC via x402 (Base) or MPP (Tempo); no accounts or API keys.

Docs with copy-paste examples (curl, MCP, x402 client): https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/docs
Landing: https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/
OpenAPI: https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/openapi.json
MCP (streamable HTTP, stateless): https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/mcp
x402 discovery: https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/.well-known/x402

## Endpoints
- GET https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/v1/rent-check?area=&beds=&type= : "What is the average rent in Dublin 4 / Galway / Ardee?" Average asking rent for an Irish county, town or Dublin postal district, 4 and 12 quarter trend, summary of current Irish rent-control rules. County + beds=All + type=All is free (20 calls/day/IP); everything else $0.02.
- GET https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/v1/comps?county=&segment=&quarters= : "What are house prices in Cork?" Residential sale price count/median/p25/p75 per quarter by county, new vs second-hand. $0.05. Buckets with fewer than 5 sales are suppressed. No addresses.
- GET https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/v1/areas : list of valid areas (free).
- GET https://rent-check-production.up.railway.app/health : status and data date (free).

## Payment
Unpaid calls to paid endpoints return HTTP 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (x402 v2, USDC on Base eip155:8453) and a WWW-Authenticate: Payment challenge (MPP, Tempo). Pay and retry.

## Sources and licences
- CSO / RTB Rent Index RIQ02, CC BY 4.0.
- Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA), Residential Property Price Register, re-used with attribution.
Information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Contact: kodamarketplace@agentmail.to