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What houses actually sold for

Median sale prices by county, from the Property Price Register, which records what was filed for stamp duty rather than what anybody asked for.

Two kinds of sale are counted separately and kept out of every median here: sales that were not at arm’s length, and sales where the recorded price left out the value added tax the buyer paid. Both are common enough to move a figure, and both are usually left in.

22,151 of them, read out of the register itself.

Only the first three characters are used, and only to find the area. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Every sale since 2010

What the country has done

The median residential sale in the State, year by year, over 624,723 counted sales. The bottom of the market was in 2013.

  1. 2010€215,000
  2. 2011€180,000
  3. 2012€155,000
  4. 2013€149,000
  5. 2014€150,000
  6. 2015€165,000
  7. 2016€178,000
  8. 2017€200,000
  9. 2018€215,000
  10. 2019€225,000
  11. 2020€225,000
  12. 2021€250,000
  13. 2022€275,000
  14. 2023€290,000
  15. 2024€315,000
  16. 2025€345,000
  17. 2026*€355,000

2026 is a part year and is marked with an asterisk. Sales that were not at arm’s length and prices recorded without VAT are not counted in any of these.

The two ends of it

Dearest and cheapest towns

By median sale in their most recent complete year. A town needs thirty sales in that year before it appears, because a ranking topped by somewhere that sold four houses is an accident rather than a fact.

Dearest

  1. Foxrock€1,275,000
    Co. Dublin
  2. Mount Merrion€1,262,500
    Co. Dublin
  3. Sandycove€1,110,000
    Co. Dublin
  4. Dalkey€1,080,000
    Co. Dublin
  5. Dublin 6€933,750
    Co. Dublin
  6. Glenageary€912,500
    Co. Dublin
  7. Enniskerry€903,750
    Co. Wicklow
  8. Booterstown€885,000
    Co. Dublin
  9. Blackrock€865,000
    Co. Dublin
  10. Monkstown€810,000
    Co. Dublin

Cheapest

  1. Bodyke€50,000
    Co. Clare
  2. Leighlinbridge€89,375
    Co. Carlow
  3. Billis€97,500
    Co. Cavan
  4. Ballyshannon€130,000
    Co. Donegal
  5. Carndonagh€145,000
    Co. Donegal
  6. Kiltimagh€155,000
    Co. Mayo
  7. Castlerea€157,500
    Co. Roscommon
  8. Swinford€161,333
    Co. Mayo
  9. Lifford€162,000
    Co. Donegal
  10. Portland Street North€163,683
    Co. Dublin

Where it moved

Fastest rising towns over five years

Five years rather than one, because a single year in a town of a hundred sales is mostly noise about which houses happened to change hands.

  1. Castlerea+167%€59,000 to €157,500
  2. Moycullen+158%€156,500 to €403,750
  3. Kilrush+153%€68,750 to €174,000
  4. Waterville+130%€150,000 to €344,500
  5. Tubbercurry+129%€78,750 to €180,000
  6. Bundoran+122%€90,000 to €200,000
  7. Kilmallock+120%€100,000 to €220,000
  8. Ballyconnell+119%€96,000 to €210,500
  9. Birr+119%€105,000 to €230,000
  10. Monasterevin+112%€156,000 to €330,000

Or start wide

By county

CountyMedianYearOn the year before
Dublin€482,0002025rose 7.1%
Wicklow€440,0002025rose 12.8%
Kildare€405,0002025rose 9.5%
Meath€360,0002025rose 9.1%
Galway€335,0002025rose 11.7%
Cork€330,0002025rose 9.3%
Kilkenny€292,0002025rose 10.2%
Westmeath€292,0002025rose 13.4%
Limerick€287,5002025rose 12.7%
Louth€285,0002025rose 9.6%
Clare€280,0002025rose 9.8%
Kerry€280,0002025rose 12.7%
Wexford€275,0002025rose 7.8%
Offaly€260,0002025rose 13.0%
Carlow€259,0002025rose 6.8%
Waterford€255,0002025rose 7.6%
Laois€252,7502025rose 10.9%
Tipperary€240,0002025rose 15.4%
Cavan€230,0002025rose 16.5%
Sligo€221,5002025rose 4.2%
Monaghan€220,0002025rose 10.0%
Mayo€210,0002025rose 7.7%
Leitrim€194,5002025rose 14.4%
Roscommon€190,0002025rose 5.6%
Longford€186,7502025rose 3.2%
Donegal€175,0002025rose 2.9%

What the register is and is not

It is a record of residential sales filed for stamp duty, published by the Property Services Regulatory Authority. It is not a list of asking prices and it does not include anything that did not complete.

It carries no floor area, so there is no price per square metre here. That would need a second dataset joined to this one, and doing that badly is worse than not doing it.

The current year is always partial, so it is marked as such and never compared against a full one.

Source: Property Services Regulatory Authority, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and summarised rather than reproduced. Imported 4 August 2026.

This is information, not legal or tax advice. Every figure here links to the source it came from, and that source is the one to rely on.