Residential property prices increased by 7.4% in the year to April, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
While house prices continue to increase, there was a further softening in the latest figures – down from 7.6 in March, 8% in February and from 10.1% last August.
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.
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.
The CSO said that property prices nationally have now increased by 162.7% from their trough in early 2013.
Dublin residential property prices have risen by 158.1% from their February 2012 low, while residential property prices in the rest of Ireland are 175.8% higher than their low point in May 2013.
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