Longford House Prices, Rents & Yields
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Longford house prices: the median home sold for €168k over the last 12 months (+12.5% year-on-year). The average rent is €1,140 a month, a gross rental yield of 8.1%. Across 4 Longford towns, the median ranges from €164,000 in Newtownforbes to €200,000 in Longford.
Official Property Price Register, CSO & RTB data · 4 towns · updated July 2026
Longford in Leinster: its €168k median is the 12th-highest of Leinster's 12 counties, behind Dublin and Wicklow and Kildare and Meath and Louth and Laois and Kilkenny and Carlow and Westmeath and Wexford and Offaly.
Check the maximum legal rent increase -- the March 2026 cap (2% or CPI, whichever is lower), computed from official CSO figures.
Compare Longford towns
The cheapest, highest-yielding, fastest-rising and best-connected towns in Longford. Tap any town for its full living-in profile.
- 1. Newtownforbes€164k
- 2. Ballymahon€188k
- 3. Edgeworthstown€189k
- 4. Longford€200k
- 1. Edgeworthstown+6.0%
- 2. Longford+2.6%
- 3. Newtownforbes+-3.5%
- 4. Ballymahon+-12.6%
Year-on-year figures for the smallest towns move on thin sale counts, so treat the steepest risers as indicative.
Longford at a glance
| Measure | Longford |
|---|---|
| Median sale price (12 mo) | €168k |
| Year on year (CSO RPPI) | +12.5% |
| Average monthly rent | €1,140 |
| Gross rental yield | 8.1% |
Towns in Longford
Median sale price (with a bar relative to the dearest town here), average rent and gross yield, from the Property Price Register and RTB. Tap a linked town for its full report — recent sales, year-by-year prices and rental yield.
| Town | Median | Relative | Rent | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longford | €200,000 | €1,140 | 6.8% | |
| Edgeworthstown | €188,750 | €1,122 | 7.1% | |
| Ballymahon | €188,000 | €1,072 | 6.8% | |
| Newtownforbes | €164,000 | – | – |
A dash (–) means too few recent sales or rentals in that town to publish a reliable figure.
County context
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Population (2022 Census) | 46,751 |
| Population change 2016 to 2022 | +14.4% |
| Disposable income per person (index, State = 100) | 76.5 |
| New dwelling permissions (Midland region, 2017) | 168 thousand m² |
Planning permissions are reported at NUTS3 region level; counties in this region share a figure.
Sources: CSO F1001, CIA02, BHQ09. CC-BY 4.0.
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Sources: Property Price Register (PSRA), CSO RPPI, RTB Rent Index via CSO. All CC-BY.