Louth House Prices, Rents & Yields

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Leinster house prices & rents › Louth

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.

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The cheapest, highest-yielding, fastest-rising and best-connected towns in Louth. Tap any town for its full living-in profile.

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Year-on-year figures for the smallest towns move on thin sale counts, so treat the steepest risers as indicative.

Louth at a glance

MeasureLouth
Median sale price (12 mo)€370k
Year on year (CSO RPPI)+5.8%
Average monthly rent€1,454
Gross rental yield4.7%

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.

TownMedianRelativeRentYield
Ardee€380,000
€1,3254.2%
Drogheda€375,000
€1,4624.7%
Dundalk€315,500
€1,4275.4%

A dash (–) means too few recent sales or rentals in that town to publish a reliable figure.



County context

MeasureFigure
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.