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

CountyMedianYear on yearSales
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.