Leinster Sold-Price Index · January to March 2020

Leinster sold prices, Q1 2020

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
+1.4%
Quarter on quarter
-0.4%
Index level
176.2Q4 2013 = 100
Median sale price
€303,0006,329 sales

In January to March 2020, 6,329 homes sold across Leinster at a median of €303,000, +2.7% 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 1.4% over the year, on 1,480 matched pairs. The CSO's own index for the same regions moved +0.3% over the same period. New builds were 18% of sales.

By county

CountyMedianYear on yearSales
Co. Dublin€375,000+5.6%3460
Co. Wicklow€314,375+1.4%296
Co. Kildare€290,000+0.0%560
Co. Meath€280,000-1.8%506
Co. Kilkenny€199,500+7.8%149
Co. Louth€190,000-5.0%298
Co. Wexford€175,000+0.0%345
Co. Laois€173,616+2.9%153
Co. Westmeath€171,000+0.6%210
Co. Carlow€162,340-4.5%129
Co. Offaly€160,000+0.0%133
Co. Longford€110,000+14.6%90

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.