Dundalk and Louth median house prices hold steady at €330k in March

The median house price for houses sold with the Dundalk Eircode A91 in March 2025 was €330,000, according to figures released by the CSO (Central Statistics Office) in their Residential Property Price Index report.

The county wide median house price for Louth now stands at €330,000, the same as February 2025.

Of the 62 houses sold in Dundalk in March, 23 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 32 to former owner-occupiers and 7 were to non occupiers.

Forty-four of these houses were existing builds while eighteen were new homes. 

The median price of the new houses sold was €388,750 and the median price of existing houses sold in March was €273,000.

In Drogheda, the median price of residential properties sold in A92: Drogheda in March 2025, was €358,999.

Of the 88 houses sold in Drogheda in March, 44 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 39 to former owner-occupiers and 5 were to non occupiers.

Thirty-five of the houses sold were new houses and fifty-three were existing. The median price for the new houses sold was €385,099 while for existing houses it was €300,000.

Commenting on the national results, Niall Corkery, Statistician in the Prices Division, said: “Residential property prices rose by 7.5% in the 12 months to March 2025, down from 8.0% in the year to February 2025. In Dublin, residential property prices saw an increase of 6.0%, while property prices outside Dublin were 8.7% higher in March 2025 when compared with a year earlier.

“In the 12 months to March 2025, house prices in Dublin rose by 5.9% while apartment prices increased by 6.2%. The highest house price growth in Dublin was in Fingal at 7.8% while South Dublin saw a rise of 4.7%.

“Outside Dublin, house prices were up by 9.1% and apartment prices rose by 4.3%. The region outside of Dublin that saw the largest growth in house prices was the Border (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, and Sligo) at 12.8%, while at the other end of the scale, the Mid-East (Kildare, Louth, Meath, and Wicklow) saw a 6.7% rise.

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“Households paid a median or mid-point price of €362,500 for a residential property in the 12 months to March 2025. The highest median price paid for a dwelling was €665,000 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, while the lowest was €180,000 in Leitrim.

“The most expensive Eircode area over the 12 months to March 2025 was A94 (Blackrock, Dublin) with a median price of €750,000, while F45 (Castlerea, Roscommon) had the least expensive price of €150,000.

“In March 2025, 3,617 dwelling purchases by households at market prices were filed with the Revenue Commissioners, an increase of 9.1% when compared with the 3,314 purchases in March 2024. The total value of transactions filed in March 2025 was €1.5 billion. This was made up of 2,866 existing dwellings with a value of €1.2 billion, and 751 new dwellings with a value of €360.6 million.”