Leinster Sold-Price Index · October to December 2015
Leinster sold prices, Q4 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
- +10.3%
- Quarter on quarter
- +1.2%
- Index level
- 131.8Q4 2013 = 100
- Median sale price
- €227,0007,312 sales
In October to December 2015, 7,312 homes sold across Leinster at a median of €227,000, +13.5% 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 10.3% over the year, on 1,543 matched pairs. The CSO's own index for the same regions moved +8.1% over the same period. New builds were 13% of sales.
By county
| County | Median | Year on year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co. Dublin | €295,000 | +12.0% | 3788 |
| Co. Wicklow | €265,500 | +13.0% | 442 |
| Co. Kildare | €235,000 | +9.3% | 616 |
| Co. Meath | €200,000 | +21.2% | 501 |
| Co. Kilkenny | €145,000 | +14.2% | 197 |
| Co. Louth | €145,000 | +20.8% | 377 |
| Co. Carlow | €120,000 | -2.0% | 156 |
| Co. Laois | €120,000 | +33.3% | 182 |
| Co. Wexford | €120,000 | +0.0% | 447 |
| Co. Westmeath | €106,000 | +6.0% | 305 |
| Co. Offaly | €104,000 | +5.9% | 174 |
| Co. Longford | €64,000 | +16.4% | 127 |
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.