Leinster Sold-Price Index · October to December 2018
Leinster sold prices, Q4 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
- +7.9%
- Quarter on quarter
- +2.5%
- Index level
- 175.1Q4 2013 = 100
- Median sale price
- €295,0009,741 sales
In October to December 2018, 9,741 homes sold across Leinster at a median of €295,000, +0.0% 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 7.9% over the year, on 2,126 matched pairs. The CSO's own index for the same regions moved +6.8% over the same period. New builds were 26% of sales.
By county
| County | Median | Year on year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co. Dublin | €355,000 | +1.4% | 5177 |
| Co. Wicklow | €315,000 | +1.6% | 469 |
| Co. Kildare | €295,000 | +2.4% | 910 |
| Co. Meath | €274,999 | +5.1% | 878 |
| Co. Louth | €215,000 | +13.2% | 516 |
| Co. Kilkenny | €191,500 | +12.6% | 247 |
| Co. Carlow | €176,962 | +26.4% | 210 |
| Co. Wexford | €170,750 | +2.7% | 498 |
| Co. Laois | €165,000 | +10.0% | 241 |
| Co. Westmeath | €165,000 | +3.1% | 293 |
| Co. Offaly | €153,500 | +12.0% | 186 |
| Co. Longford | €100,000 | +3.6% | 116 |
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.