The Irish housing market in Q3 2026

Source. Residential sales at full market value from the Property Price Register, matched to Geowox's housing inventory. Bulk sales registered as one price for several units are excluded. So are single entries whose address or price shows several homes or a whole estate. So are sales with the same date, county and price at several addresses that look like one purchase of several homes. New homes registered net of VAT are grossed up at 13.5%, or 9% for apartments sold from 8 October 2025, when the reduced rate for new apartments took effect. Sales under €50,000 are excluded.

Measures. Prices are medians (less sensitive to outliers than averages), rounded to the nearest €1,000; year-on-year changes are computed from the rounded medians shown. Trend charts show the median of each quarter, so their last point is the quarter's figure in the text and tables. Medians from fewer than 30 sales are marked † and should be read as indicative. A year-on-year price change is shown without a mark where at least 300 homes sold in both quarters. With fewer, one quarter's change is less certain: the change for a county, a Dublin postcode or a row on a county page (such as apartments or new homes) is still shown where both quarters have at least 30 sales, marked *, and should be read as indicative; smaller towns show this quarter's price only, with its sales where a table lists them. Changes in the number of sales are counts, not estimates, and are shown for every county. A change for a Dublin postcode, a town or a row on a county page is marked ‡ when comparing the same kinds of home within it (new or existing, house or apartment; also the Dublin postcode for Co. Dublin's rows; new or existing only in the houses-only main towns) gives a change more than 10 points smaller in size, or more than 5 points away in the other direction: much of the median change then reflects the mix of homes behind it. Where too few comparable homes sold in both years, no check is made and no mark given. An unmarked change can still partly reflect the mix of homes sold.

Like-for-like change. Sales are grouped by area (Dublin postcode, with the rest of Co. Dublin as one group, or the county outside Dublin), house or apartment, and new or existing. Each group's median is compared with its median a year earlier, and the changes are averaged (geometric mean) weighted by each group's sales a year earlier. Groups with fewer than 5 sales in either quarter are left out; a figure is shown when the groups kept hold at least 70% of the year-earlier sales. Within a county outside Dublin the groups are house or apartment and new or existing only: finer groups by Eircode routing area were tested and not used, as too many groups had only a few sales. Co. Dublin's county figure is the Co. Dublin figure, grouped by Dublin postcode as well. The likely range is the 5th to 95th percentile of 1,000 resamples of the sales in each group: it shows how much the figure depends on which homes happened to sell.

Segments. Urban means inside a Census 2022 Urban Area: a group of at least 100 buildings, each within 65 m of another, with groups less than 500 m apart joined. Matched properties outside every Urban Area are rural; sales not matched to a property are left out. Towns and main towns use the same Urban Areas. Urban and rural are compared on existing homes: new homes are almost all built in towns or on their edges (96% of the new homes placed on a property this quarter were inside an Urban Area or within 250 m of one), on land the latest census boundaries do not yet cover. Energy efficiency groups BER A-B against C-G; sales with no BER on record are left out of them. Urban/rural and energy-rating prices are shown for this quarter only, without a year-on-year change. In the sales table, urban and rural shares are of the existing homes placed on a property, and energy rating shares of the existing homes with a BER on record. Main towns are each county's county town (Nenagh and Clonmel in Tipperary), houses only. Price classes use the VAT-adjusted price. County pages cover the five counties with a city and the five other counties with the most sales.

Coverage. 23% of the quarter's sales on the register were filed without an Eircode, including 92% of new homes. Sales are placed on a property by their Eircode or, failing that, by matching the address. Sales without an Eircode are placed by matching their address with Geowox's address search; where that finds no match, a match is accepted only where at least two different matching methods gave the same Eircode or a reviewer confirmed it. Sales whose address could not be matched to a property still count in the national, county, new and existing homes, house and apartment, and price class figures, but not in the urban/rural, town, Dublin postcode or energy rating figures, which need the property's location or BER. The register does not record whether a home is a house or an apartment, so for these sales it is taken from the address: a new apartment whose address does not say "apartment" is counted as a house. Few sales are affected, so the national house and apartment figures move little; county figures with few sales are the most exposed.

Late registrations. Sales are registered with a delay, so the latest quarter's volume will be revised up as late registrations arrive. Changes in sales compare both quarters at the same stage of registration: on the register about the same number of days after each quarter ended (the nearest weekly download, within a day or two), without the bulk sales, same-day groups that look like one purchase, non-residential sales, sales under €50,000 and repeated register rows this report leaves out. The register file is a few days older than this report's data and is matched to the report's exclusions by date, price and county, so the two counts differ slightly. The register records the county and whether a home is new, so changes are shown nationally, by county and for new and existing homes; it does not record property type, energy rating or whether a home is in a town, so those rows show no change: houses and apartments show this quarter's sales and share, urban/rural and energy rating their share only.

Method. Updated definitions: sales at non-residential addresses and sales under €50,000 are excluded, and so are single entries covering several homes or a whole estate in Q3 2025 and Q3 2026, and same-day groups of sales at one price that look like one purchase of several homes; new apartments sold from 8 October 2025 are grossed up at 9% VAT, not 13.5%; urban/rural, towns and main towns use the Census 2022 Urban Areas instead of the Census 2016 settlements; sales not matched to a property are left out of the urban/rural split instead of being counted as rural; urban/rural and energy-rating figures, prices and sales shares alike, cover existing homes only; BERs recorded as a letter only, such as B rather than B2, count in A-B or C-G; Dublin postcodes come from the Eircode instead of a boundary map.

Changes from earlier editions. Earlier quarters are recalculated on these definitions and on the sales registered since, so past figures can differ from earlier editions. Rural and town homes are now compared on existing homes only.

Data extracted 2026-10-26T20:37:24 · report generated 02 November 2026. Contact sales@geowox.com.