CBD / St Stephen's Green is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Dublin with average asking rent around €60/sqm/mo · ≈ $72.2 PSF/yr USD.
Historic legal and finance core. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: €60/sqm/mo · ≈ $72.2 PSF/yr USD
Dublin's traditional CBD around St Stephen's Green anchors the city's legal and finance Class A market — historic Class A stock plus selective new construction.
Banking, law, professional services, government, consulting.
15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.
St Stephen's Green (Luas Green Line), Pearse (DART).
Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.
St Stephen's Green, Grafton Street retail, Trinity College.
CBD / St Stephen's Green is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Dublin, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around €60/sqm/mo · ≈ $72.2 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Dublin Class A stock, CBD / St Stephen's Green typically attracts Banking, law, professional services, government, consulting and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.
Adjacent submarkets to study alongside CBD / St Stephen's Green: Docklands & Grand Canal, Ballsbridge & Dublin 4, Sandyford & Cherrywood, Citywest & Park West. The full Dublin submarket atlas is at /cities/dublin.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating CBD / St Stephen's Green, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:
Terminology specific to Dublin Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
Reviewed by Samuel Okafor — EMEA contributing editor. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.