The official median home costs €390,461 — €500,000 in Dublin, €200,000 in Donegal. Prices are still rising 6.5% a year nationally, but the cities are cooling while rural counties run at 8–13%. Here's every verified number, and which register it comes from.
Figures verified 8 July 2026Ireland's benchmark is the CSO Residential Property Price Index, built from stamp-duty returns — actual filed sales. The March 2026 release (published 13 May 2026): national median €390,461 (~$457,000) for dwellings purchased in the 12 months to March. The index rose +6.5% in the year to March — the lowest annual rate since February 2024. Dublin +5.7%; outside Dublin +7.2%. In March alone, 4,123 household purchases were filed (+14.0% y/y), worth €1.80 billion.
The portals run ahead of the register. Daft.ie's Q2 2026 report puts the national benchmark 3-bed semi at €445,000 asking, with list-price growth slowing to +3.8% y/y (from +6.8% a year earlier) — and its early transaction data show Dublin prices actually falling, −2.3% y/y, even as the official CSO index still shows Dublin up 5.7%. The CSO lags the portals by roughly three months; date-stamp everything you read, including this.
| Area | Price | ≈ USD | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland (national median) | €390,461 | $457,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median, 12 mo to Mar 2026 |
| Dublin (county) | €500,000 | $585,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median |
| — Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown | €685,000 | $801,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median (dearest local area) |
| — Fingal | €475,500 | $556,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median (cheapest Dublin area) |
| — A94 Blackrock | €845,000 | $989,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median (dearest Eircode) |
| Wicklow | €462,022 | $541,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median (dearest outside Dublin) |
| Kildare | €444,999 | $521,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median |
| Galway (county) | €362,000 | $424,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median |
| — H91 Galway city / Salthill | €415,000 | $486,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median, +~10% y/y |
| Donegal / Longford | €200,000 | $234,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median (cheapest counties) |
| — F45 Castlerea, Roscommon | €150,500 | $176,000 | OFFICIAL — CSO median (cheapest Eircode) |
| National 3-bed semi | €445,000 | $521,000 | ASKING — Daft.ie, Q2 2026 |
| Cork city 3-bed semi | €439,000 | $514,000 | ASKING — Daft.ie, Q2 2026 (+5.1% y/y) |
| Mayo 3-bed semi | €270,000 | $316,000 | ASKING — Daft.ie, Q2 2026 (+7.9% y/y) |
| Sligo 3-bed semi | €253,000 | $296,000 | ASKING — Daft.ie, Q2 2026 (+3.9% y/y) |
Conversions at €1 = $1.17 (8 July 2026), rounded. CSO medians cover dwellings purchased in the 12 months to March 2026. Regional growth from the same CSO release: Midlands +13.4% (fastest), Border +10.5%, South-West (Cork and Kerry) +3.6% (slowest outside Dublin), Dublin city houses +6.0%.
CSO Residential Property Price Index — the official monthly index plus median prices by county and Eircode, built from stamp-duty returns; the last three months are provisional. The Residential Property Price Register (PSRA) lists every actual sale price since 2010 — a raw register you can search yourself. The RTB/ESRI Rent Index is the official rent series, from registered tenancies. The CSO New Dwelling Completions series tracks supply quarterly.
Daft.ie — Ireland's largest portal — publishes quarterly sales and rental reports by Prof. Ronan Lyons (Trinity College Dublin); it's the standard market reference, but its sales figures are asking prices. MyHome.ie, the second-largest portal, publishes a quarterly report with Bank of Ireland.
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