Leinster Sold-Price Index · January to March 2015
Leinster sold prices, Q1 2015
This is an archived quarter, kept at a stable address so a figure cited from it keeps working. It is deliberately left out of search results so it cannot compete with the current figures.The current reading is on the index page.
- Index, year on year
- +20.6%
- Quarter on quarter
- +4.1%
- Index level
- 124.4Q4 2013 = 100
- Median sale price
- €220,0005,877 sales
In January to March 2015, 5,877 homes sold across Leinster at a median of €220,000, +25.7% on the same quarter a year earlier. The repeat-sales index, which compares properties with their own earlier sale and so is not moved by a change in the mix of what sold, was up 20.6% over the year, on 1,225 matched pairs. The CSO's own index for the same regions moved +20.4% over the same period. New builds were 11% of sales.
By county
| County | Median | Year on year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co. Dublin | €262,250 | +12.9% | 3350 |
| Co. Wicklow | €225,000 | +2.3% | 249 |
| Co. Kildare | €213,332 | +25.5% | 507 |
| Co. Meath | €184,000 | +18.7% | 331 |
| Co. Kilkenny | €135,000 | +28.6% | 153 |
| Co. Carlow | €120,000 | +17.4% | 104 |
| Co. Louth | €120,000 | +20.6% | 242 |
| Co. Wexford | €115,000 | +9.5% | 333 |
| Co. Westmeath | €100,000 | +20.5% | 192 |
| Co. Offaly | €89,200 | -6.1% | 134 |
| Co. Laois | €88,500 | +7.9% | 146 |
| Co. Longford | €59,000 | +12.4% | 136 |
County figures are medians, so they move with the mix of what sold as well as with price. The index above controls for that; a county median does not. Sales counts for recent quarters are a floor, because the register keeps accepting filings for weeks after a sale closes.