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.
  • Prime tier — ~€60/sqm/mo.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

CBD / St Stephen's Green, Dublin — Class A submarket

Historic legal and finance core. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: €60/sqm/mo · ≈ $72.2 PSF/yr USD

TL;DR

  • Historic legal and finance core.
  • Prime tier — ~€60/sqm/mo.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

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.

Tenant profile

Banking, law, professional services, government, consulting.

Typical specification

15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.

Transit

St Stephen's Green (Luas Green Line), Pearse (DART).

Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.

Amenities

St Stephen's Green, Grafton Street retail, Trinity College.

Comparable buildings

  • 38 St Stephen's Green
  • One Spencer Dock
  • ESB HQ

Where CBD / St Stephen's Green sits in Dublin

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.

Topic deep-dives for CBD / St Stephen's Green

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:

Related glossary

Terminology specific to Dublin Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

Reviewed by Samuel Okafor — EMEA contributing editor. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.

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