# Leinster Insider

> Local guides and official property data for every town across Leinster, Ireland.
> Median house prices, rents and rental yields for 203 towns, from the Property Price
> Register, CSO RPPI and the RTB. Plus editorial guides to things to
> do, places to go and living in each county. Written and edited by Bryan Collins.

## Property data
- Every town: https://leinsterinsider.ie/towns/
- All house prices, ranked: https://leinsterinsider.ie/house-prices/
- Rental yields, ranked: https://leinsterinsider.ie/rental-yields/
- Per-county: /<county>-house-prices/ (e.g. /kildare-house-prices/)
- Per-town price page: /<town>-house-prices/ (e.g. /athlone-house-prices/) — median price, year trend, new vs second-hand, rents by bedroom, gross/net yield, recent sales
- Per-town: /living-in-<town>/ (e.g. /living-in-athlone/) — median price, YoY, rent, gross/net yield, recent sales, year trend
- Cost of living, every town ranked (monthly cost to rent vs to own): https://leinsterinsider.ie/cost-of-living/

## Guides
- All guides: https://leinsterinsider.ie/guides/

## Days out
- Things to do in <town>: /things-to-do-in-<town>/ (e.g. /things-to-do-in-athlone/) — attractions, national monuments, heritage buildings, walking trails and nature reserves near each town, all from open data (Fáilte Ireland, National Monuments Service, NIAH, Sport Ireland, NPWS)

## Interactive tools (native to this site, beyond static guides)
- Live data explorer — sort/filter all 203 towns by price, yield, county, budget: https://leinsterinsider.ie/explorer/
- Find your town by commute + budget: https://leinsterinsider.ie/find-your-town/
- Shortlist + compare towns side by side (prices, rents, yields, demographics): https://leinsterinsider.ie/compare/
- Rent-review evidence pack — max legal increase under the March 2026 RPZ 2% cap: https://leinsterinsider.ie/rent-review/
- Per-town calculators on every /living-in-<town>/ page: buy-to-let yield, mortgage affordability, stamp duty, Local Property Tax, rent cap

## What's on
- Events calendar, refreshed weekly from Fáilte Ireland Open Data: https://leinsterinsider.ie/events/

## Open data (free, CC BY 4.0)
- Full dataset, all towns: https://leinsterinsider.ie/data/
- JSON API (CORS-enabled, with 4-year price history): https://leinsterinsider.ie/api/towns.json
- CSV download: https://leinsterinsider.ie/data/leinster-house-prices.csv
- Licence: CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse with attribution to Leinster Insider.

## Data sources
Property Price Register (sales), CSO RPPI HPM05/HPM09 (benchmark), RTB RIQ02 (rents). CC-BY where applicable.

## Contact / sponsor
- Sponsor: https://leinsterinsider.ie/sponsor/
- Contact: https://leinsterinsider.ie/contact-us/ (info@leinsterinsider.ie)