There were only 1,766 apartments built in Dublin in 2018, 54% of them (956) in Dublin City Council area, 33% (575) in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, 12% (207) in Fingal and just 2% (28) in the South Dublin County Council area. It is estimated that there will be just 3,000 apartments built in Dublin in 2019 but this is still less than a third of the estimated 9,000 units required annually in the capital for the sale and rental markets.