Leinster Sold-Price Index · January to March 2018
Leinster sold prices, Q1 2018
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
- +11.9%
- Quarter on quarter
- +1.6%
- Index level
- 164.9Q4 2013 = 100
- Median sale price
- €281,6496,567 sales
In January to March 2018, 6,567 homes sold across Leinster at a median of €281,649, +6.3% 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 11.9% over the year, on 1,511 matched pairs. The CSO's own index for the same regions moved +11.6% over the same period. New builds were 23% of sales.
By county
| County | Median | Year on year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co. Dublin | €345,000 | +5.8% | 3739 |
| Co. Wicklow | €295,692 | +7.5% | 340 |
| Co. Kildare | €283,499 | +15.7% | 528 |
| Co. Meath | €265,000 | +15.2% | 477 |
| Co. Louth | €212,812 | +22.7% | 307 |
| Co. Kilkenny | €178,500 | +19.0% | 142 |
| Co. Westmeath | €170,000 | +30.8% | 219 |
| Co. Carlow | €164,575 | +14.3% | 133 |
| Co. Wexford | €164,000 | +19.1% | 320 |
| Co. Laois | €150,000 | +11.1% | 144 |
| Co. Offaly | €125,000 | -3.8% | 129 |
| Co. Longford | €90,000 | +25.0% | 89 |
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.