Westmeath House Prices, Rents & Yields
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Westmeath house prices: the median home sold for €305k over the last 12 months (+12.5% year-on-year). The average rent is €1,285 a month, a gross rental yield of 5.1%. Across 6 Westmeath towns, the median ranges from €241,000 in Castlepollard to €356,500 in Mullingar.
Official Property Price Register, CSO & RTB data · 6 towns · updated July 2026
Westmeath in Leinster: its €305k median is the 9th-highest of Leinster's 12 counties, behind Dublin and Wicklow and Kildare and Meath and Louth and Laois and Kilkenny and Carlow.
Check the maximum legal rent increase -- the March 2026 cap (2% or CPI, whichever is lower), computed from official CSO figures.
Compare Westmeath towns
The cheapest, highest-yielding, fastest-rising and best-connected towns in Westmeath. Tap any town for its full living-in profile.
- 1. Castlepollard€241k
- 2. Kilbeggan€263k
- 3. Moate€295k
- 4. Athlone€305k
- 5. Kinnegad€315k
Year-on-year figures for the smallest towns move on thin sale counts, so treat the steepest risers as indicative.
Westmeath at a glance
| Measure | Westmeath |
|---|---|
| Median sale price (12 mo) | €305k |
| Year on year (CSO RPPI) | +12.5% |
| Average monthly rent | €1,285 |
| Gross rental yield | 5.1% |
Towns in Westmeath
Median sale price (with a bar relative to the dearest town here), average rent and gross yield, from the Property Price Register and RTB. Tap a linked town for its full report — recent sales, year-by-year prices and rental yield.
| Town | Median | Relative | Rent | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mullingar | €356,500 | €1,243 | 4.2% | |
| Kinnegad | €315,000 | – | – | |
| Athlone | €305,000 | €1,323 | 5.2% | |
| Moate | €295,000 | €1,342 | 5.5% | |
| Kilbeggan | €263,250 | – | – | |
| Castlepollard | €241,000 | – | – |
A dash (–) means too few recent sales or rentals in that town to publish a reliable figure.
County context
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Population (2022 Census) | 96,221 |
| Population change 2016 to 2022 | +8.4% |
| Disposable income per person (index, State = 100) | 80.6 |
| New dwelling permissions (Midland region, 2017) | 168 thousand m² |
Planning permissions are reported at NUTS3 region level; counties in this region share a figure.
Sources: CSO F1001, CIA02, BHQ09. CC-BY 4.0.
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Sources: Property Price Register (PSRA), CSO RPPI, RTB Rent Index via CSO. All CC-BY.