Central Statistics Office Residential Property Price Index – 2025

The Central Statistics Office have recently published a Residential Property Price Index, January 2025.

Key Findings

• The national Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) increased by 8.1% in the 12 months to January 2025.
• Property prices in Dublin rose by 7.5% and prices outside Dublin were up by 8.6% compared with January 2024.
• The median price of a dwelling purchased in the 12 months to January 2025 was €359,999.
• The highest median price for a dwelling in the 12 months to January 2025 was €662,349 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, while the lowest median price was €180,000 in Leitrim.
• In January 2025, 3,801 dwelling purchases by households at market prices, with a value of €1.6 billion, were filed with the Revenue Commissioners. These purchases were made up of 2,824 existing dwellings and 977 new dwellings.
• Revenue data shows that there were 1,504 first-time buyer purchases in January 2025.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (19 March 2025) published the Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) January 2025.

Commenting on the release, Niall Corkery, Statistician in the Prices Division, said: “Residential property prices rose by 8.1% in the 12 months to January 2025, down from 8.8% in the year to December 2024. In Dublin, residential property prices saw an increase of 7.5%, while property prices outside Dublin were 8.6% higher in January 2025 when compared with a year earlier.

Residential Property Price Index

In the 12 months to January 2025, house prices in Dublin rose by 7.9% while apartment prices increased by 6.1%. The highest house price growth in Dublin was in Fingal at 9.5% while Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown saw a rise of 6.4%.

Outside Dublin, house prices were up by 8.9% and apartment prices rose by 5.0%. The region outside of Dublin that saw the largest growth in house prices was the Border (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, and Sligo) at 12.7%, while at the other end of the scale, the Mid-East (Kildare, Louth, Meath, and Wicklow) saw a 5.8% rise.

Median Property Prices

Households paid a median or mid-point price of €359,999 for a residential property in the 12 months to January 2025. The highest median price paid for a dwelling was €662,349 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, while the lowest was €180,000 in Leitrim.

The most expensive Eircode area over the 12 months to January 2025 was A94 ‘Blackrock’ with a median price of €743,500, while H23 ‘Clones’ had the least expensive price of €133,000.

A table of median prices by Eircode area is available, as is our Interactive App where you can explore the median property price by Eircode area.

Volume and Value of Purchases

In January 2025, 3,801 dwelling purchases by households at market prices were filed with the Revenue Commissioners, an increase of 5.0% when compared with the 3,621 purchases in January 2024. The total value of transactions filed in January 2025 was €1.6 billion. This was made up of 2,824 existing dwellings with a value of €1.2 billion, and 977 new dwellings with a value of €459.0 million.”