Louth House Prices, Rents & Yields
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Louth house prices: the median home sold for €370k over the last 12 months (+5.8% year-on-year). The average rent is €1,454 a month, a gross rental yield of 4.7%. Across 3 Louth towns, the median ranges from €315,500 in Dundalk to €380,000 in Ardee.
Official Property Price Register, CSO & RTB data · 3 towns · updated July 2026
Louth in Leinster: its €370k median is the 5th-highest of Leinster's 12 counties, behind Dublin and Wicklow and Kildare and Meath.
Check the maximum legal rent increase -- the March 2026 cap (2% or CPI, whichever is lower), computed from official CSO figures.
Compare Louth towns
The cheapest, highest-yielding, fastest-rising and best-connected towns in Louth. Tap any town for its full living-in profile.
Year-on-year figures for the smallest towns move on thin sale counts, so treat the steepest risers as indicative.
Louth at a glance
| Measure | Louth |
|---|---|
| Median sale price (12 mo) | €370k |
| Year on year (CSO RPPI) | +5.8% |
| Average monthly rent | €1,454 |
| Gross rental yield | 4.7% |
Towns in Louth
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardee | €380,000 | €1,325 | 4.2% | |
| Drogheda | €375,000 | €1,462 | 4.7% | |
| Dundalk | €315,500 | €1,427 | 5.4% |
A dash (–) means too few recent sales or rentals in that town to publish a reliable figure.
County context
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Population (2022 Census) | 139,703 |
| Population change 2016 to 2022 | +8.4% |
| Disposable income per person (index, State = 100) | 92.2 |
| New dwelling permissions (Mid-East region, 2017) | 657 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.