Leinster Sold-Price Index · October to December 2017
Leinster sold prices, Q4 2017
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
- +12.4%
- Quarter on quarter
- +1.0%
- Index level
- 162.4Q4 2013 = 100
- Median sale price
- €294,9999,335 sales
In October to December 2017, 9,335 homes sold across Leinster at a median of €294,999, +15.7% 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 12.4% over the year, on 2,068 matched pairs. The CSO's own index for the same regions moved +11.1% over the same period. New builds were 24% of sales.
By county
| County | Median | Year on year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co. Dublin | €350,000 | +9.4% | 5303 |
| Co. Wicklow | €310,000 | +11.1% | 452 |
| Co. Kildare | €288,000 | +8.7% | 805 |
| Co. Meath | €261,750 | +16.3% | 766 |
| Co. Louth | €190,000 | +15.2% | 420 |
| Co. Kilkenny | €170,000 | -3.4% | 205 |
| Co. Wexford | €166,250 | +14.7% | 502 |
| Co. Westmeath | €160,000 | +18.5% | 241 |
| Co. Laois | €150,000 | +3.4% | 205 |
| Co. Carlow | €140,000 | -1.4% | 145 |
| Co. Offaly | €137,000 | +38.4% | 179 |
| Co. Longford | €96,500 | +28.7% | 112 |
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.