National official coverage
2 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.
- Latest period
- 2026-Q1
- Year over year
- +6.8%
- History
- 91 quarters
- Since 2015-Q1
- +112.6%
Official national series
Residential property price index
Nominal index, 2010 = 100 · quarterly · through 2026-Q1
- Latest 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
House prices, rents and price-to-rent
OECD analytical house price indicators · 2015 = 100
- House price index
- 205.1
- +6.8% 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
Source: OECD analytical house price indicators. Index levels measure cumulative movement from the 2015 base and are not currency prices. Price-to-rent movement is a valuation signal, not a gross rental yield.
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
Latest source snapshot ingested Aug 9, 2026. Coverage expands only after additional official datasets pass publication review.
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