Louth median house price was €340k in April

The median house price for houses sold with the Dundalk Eircode A91 in April  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 €340,000.

Of the 46 houses sold in Dundalk in April, 15 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 26 to former owner-occupiers and 5 were to non occupiers.

Twenty nine of these houses were existing builds while seventeen were new homes. 

The median price of the new houses sold was €375,000 and the median price of existing houses sold in April was €285,000.

In Drogheda, the median price of residential properties sold in A92: Drogheda in April 2025, was €364,999.

Of the 155 houses sold in Drogheda in April, 95 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 54 to former owner-occupiers and 6 were to non occupiers.

Nintey four of the houses sold were new houses and sixty-one were existing. The median price for the new houses sold was €405,000 while for existing houses it was €321,000.

Commenting on the national figures, Niall Corkery, Statistician in the Prices Division, said: “Residential property prices rose by 7.5% in the 12 months to April 2025, down from 7.6% in the year to March 2025. In Dublin, residential property prices saw an increase of 6.2%, while property prices outside Dublin were 8.6% higher in April 2025 when compared with a year earlier.

“In the 12 months to April 2025, house prices in Dublin rose by 6.1% while apartment prices increased by 6.5%. The highest house price growth in Dublin was in Fingal at 9.2% while Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown saw a rise of 4.3%.

“Outside Dublin, house prices were up by 8.8% and apartment prices rose by 5.7%. The region outside of Dublin that saw the largest growth in house prices was the Border (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, and Sligo) at 11.8%, while at the other end of the scale, the South-East (Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, and Wexford) saw a 7.2% rise.

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“Households paid a median or mid-point price of €365,000 for a residential property in the 12 months to April 2025. The highest median price paid for a dwelling was €670,000 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, while the lowest was €185,000 in Leitrim.

“The most expensive Eircode area over the 12 months to April 2025 was A94 (Blackrock, Dublin) with a median price of €750,000, while F45 (Castlerea, Roscommon) had the least expensive price of €148,000.

“In April 2025, 3,748 dwelling purchases by households at market prices were filed with the Revenue Commissioners, an increase of 4.9% when compared with the 3,572 purchases in April 2024. 

“The total value of transactions filed in April 2025 was €1.6 billion. This was made up of 2,908 existing dwellings with a value of €1.2 billion, and 840 new dwellings with a value of €398.1 million.”