National official coverage
4 official sourcesIreland property market
National residential property prices rose 6.8% in the year to 2026-Q1. Additional local coverage appears below where an official source qualifies.
Browse all 26 local markets- Most recent period
- 2026-Q1
- Year over year
- +6.8%
- History
- 137 quarters
- Since 2015-Q1
- +112.6%
Market scorecard
What the official series say about Ireland
Directional signals, not an investment rating. Open any measure to inspect its period, source and complete history.
Official national series
Residential property price index
Nominal index, 2010 = 100 · quarterly · through 2026-Q1
- Most recent source index
- 193.4
- Year over year
- +6.8%
- Since 2015-Q1
- +112.6%
Source: Bank for International Settlements, selected residential property prices. BIS chooses the series closest to nationwide coverage for cross-country comparison; national compilation methods still vary. This is an index of price movement, not a currency price level or a city-specific estimate.
Official valuation signals
Prices, inflation, rents and affordability
OECD analytical house price indicators · 2015 = 100
- House price index
- 205.1
- +6.8% over four quarters
- Through 2026-Q1
- Real house price index
- 152.6
- +3.7% over four quarters
- Through 2026-Q1
- Rent price index
- 181.4
- +4.8% over four quarters
- Through 2026-Q2
- Price-to-rent index
- 115.5
- +3.3% over four quarters
- Through 2026-Q1
- Price-to-income index
- 124.0
- +8.6% over four quarters
- Through 2026-Q1
Source: OECD analytical house price indicators. Index levels measure cumulative movement from the 2015 base and are not currency prices. Real house prices remove consumer-price inflation. Price-to-rent and price-to-income are relative signals, not gross yields or affordability guarantees.
Official local sale and rent coverage
26 matched local markets
Rolling sale-price medians and registered-rent averages are paired by named market to calculate an explicitly labeled gross-yield proxy.
- CarlowEUR 270,000 median sale6.00% yield proxy
- CavanEUR 255,000 median sale5.31% yield proxy
- ClareEUR 307,500 median sale4.75% yield proxy
- Cork CityEUR 345,000 median sale6.02% yield proxy
- DonegalEUR 193,000 median sale6.23% yield proxy
- DublinEUR 500,000 median sale5.20% yield proxy
- Galway CityEUR 411,475 median sale5.50% yield proxy
- KerryEUR 290,000 median sale5.04% yield proxy
- KildareEUR 440,000 median sale4.73% yield proxy
- KilkennyEUR 340,000 median sale4.29% yield proxy
- LaoisEUR 322,022 median sale4.73% yield proxy
- LeitrimEUR 206,000 median sale5.93% yield proxy
- Limerick CityEUR 290,000 median sale7.34% yield proxy
- LongfordEUR 200,000 median sale6.84% yield proxy
- LouthEUR 370,000 median sale4.71% yield proxy
- MayoEUR 230,000 median sale5.92% yield proxy
- MeathEUR 412,000 median sale4.54% yield proxy
- MonaghanEUR 253,000 median sale4.98% yield proxy
- OffalyEUR 280,000 median sale5.22% yield proxy
- RoscommonEUR 210,000 median sale6.37% yield proxy
- SligoEUR 270,000 median sale5.35% yield proxy
- TipperaryEUR 267,250 median sale4.94% yield proxy
- Waterford CityEUR 296,250 median sale5.56% yield proxy
- WestmeathEUR 325,000 median sale4.75% yield proxy
- WexfordEUR 305,000 median sale4.73% yield proxy
- WicklowEUR 455,000 median sale4.62% yield proxy
Observations
Recent BIS quarterly history
Index levels show change from the 2010 base; they are not property prices.
| Quarter | Nominal index | Year over year | Period end |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-Q1 | 193.4 | +6.8% | Mar 31, 2026 |
| 2025-Q4 | 191.8 | +7.0% | Dec 31, 2025 |
| 2025-Q3 | 188.2 | +7.5% | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 2025-Q2 | 183.4 | +7.8% | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 2025-Q1 | 181.0 | +7.9% | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 2024-Q4 | 179.3 | +9.4% | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 2024-Q3 | 175.1 | +9.9% | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 2024-Q2 | 170.2 | +8.4% | Jun 30, 2024 |
| 2024-Q1 | 167.7 | +6.3% | Mar 31, 2024 |
| 2023-Q4 | 163.9 | +3.1% | Dec 31, 2023 |
| 2023-Q3 | 159.3 | +1.4% | Sep 30, 2023 |
| 2023-Q2 | 156.9 | +2.7% | Jun 30, 2023 |
Source and interpretation
Comparable national coverage, with limits
BIS supplies a cross-country national residential property price benchmark. OECD also adds rent and price-to-rent indices, all normalized to 2015 = 100.
National compilation methods and dwelling coverage still vary. These indices cannot answer what a home costs in a specific city or how much listing inventory is available.
Coverage status
- National price index
- Published
- Official city benchmark
- Not yet available
- Rent and valuation indices
- Published
- Official local markets
- 26
- Primary published scope
- National
Source snapshot ingested Aug 11, 2026. Coverage expands only after additional official datasets pass publication review.
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