Median property prices in Dundalk hit €330k in August

The median house price for houses sold with the Dundalk Eircode A91 in August 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 €345,000, an increase of €5000 on the previous month.

Of the 50 houses sold in Dundalk in August, 17 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 23 to former owner-occupiers and 10 were to non occupiers.

Thirty-nine of these houses were existing builds while eleven were new homes.

The median price of the new houses sold was €340,000 and the median price of existing houses sold in August was €290,000.

In Drogheda, the median price of residential properties sold in A92: Drogheda in August 2025, was €372,500, the same as July.

Of the 110 houses sold in Drogheda in August, 56 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 49 to former owner-occupiers and 5 were to non occupiers.

Forty-three of the houses sold were new houses and the other sixty-seven were existing. The median price for the new houses sold was €410,000 while for existing houses it was €340,000.

Commenting on the release, Niall Corkery, Statistician in the Prices Division, said: “Residential property prices rose by 7.4% in the 12 months to August 2025, unchanged from the 7.4% in the year to July 2025. In Dublin, residential property prices saw an increase of 5.3%, while property prices outside Dublin were 9.2% higher in August 2025 when compared with a year earlier.

In the 12 months to August 2025, house prices in Dublin rose by 5.2% while apartment prices increased by 5.6%. The highest house price growth in Dublin was in Dublin City at 7.2% while Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown saw a rise of 3.3%.

Outside Dublin, house prices were up by 9.1% and apartment prices rose by 9.6%. The region outside of Dublin that saw the largest growth in house prices was the Midlands (Laois, Longford, Offaly, and Westmeath) at 12.0%, while at the other end of the scale, the South-East (Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, and Wexford) saw a rise of 6.8%.

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Households paid a median or mid-point price of €375,000 for a residential property in the 12 months to August 2025. The highest median price paid for a dwelling was €675,000 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, while the lowest was €190,000 in Donegal.

The most expensive Eircode area over the 12 months to August 2025 was A94 (Blackrock, Dublin) with a median price of €797,500, while F45 (Castlerea, Roscommon) had the least expensive price of €148,000.