Leinster Sold-Price Index · July to September 2018
Leinster sold prices, Q3 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
- +6.3%
- Quarter on quarter
- +1.8%
- Index level
- 170.8Q4 2013 = 100
- Median sale price
- €305,0008,373 sales
In July to September 2018, 8,373 homes sold across Leinster at a median of €305,000, +8.9% 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 6.3% over the year, on 2,019 matched pairs. The CSO's own index for the same regions moved +8.7% over the same period. New builds were 24% of sales.
By county
| County | Median | Year on year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co. Dublin | €375,000 | +8.7% | 4694 |
| Co. Wicklow | €313,500 | +1.1% | 372 |
| Co. Kildare | €290,000 | +11.5% | 750 |
| Co. Meath | €270,000 | +8.0% | 622 |
| Co. Louth | €220,000 | +21.0% | 407 |
| Co. Kilkenny | €187,500 | +15.7% | 219 |
| Co. Carlow | €180,000 | +11.3% | 149 |
| Co. Westmeath | €178,000 | +20.6% | 221 |
| Co. Wexford | €167,500 | +11.7% | 454 |
| Co. Laois | €161,500 | +18.2% | 220 |
| Co. Offaly | €160,000 | +3.2% | 159 |
| Co. Longford | €88,500 | +13.5% | 106 |
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.