Louth house prices climb 3.6% as average three-bed semi reaches €351,000
Latest Daft.ie report shows steady growth in Louth's property market
House prices in Louth continued to rise during the second quarter of 2026, although at a more moderate pace than in some neighbouring counties, according to the latest Daft.ie House Price Report.
The report shows that listed prices in Louth were, on average, 3.6% higher in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the same period last year.
A typical three-bedroom semi-detached house in the county was listed for €351,000 during the quarter, representing an annual increase of 7.3%.
Four-bedroom semi-detached homes had an average listed price of €421,000, up 8% year-on-year, while detached four-bedroom houses averaged €545,000, an increase of 8.7%.
Despite the overall upward trend, some larger properties saw prices ease. The average listed price of a five-bedroom detached house in Louth stood at €624,000, down 2% compared with a year earlier.
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The report also highlights the cost of new homes in the county. The median price of a newly built property sold in Louth in the year to March 2026 was €397,500.
Meanwhile, the typical price per square metre of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Louth was €3,205 during the second quarter.
Compared with neighbouring counties, Louth remains more affordable than parts of the wider Leinster region. The average listed price of a three-bedroom semi-detached house was considerably lower than in Meath (€430,000), Kildare (€423,000) and Wicklow (€484,000), according to the Daft.ie data.
The Daft.ie report is based on asking prices for homes listed on the property website during the second quarter of 2026.
The average list price nationally rose by 3.8% in the year to June 2026, according to the latest Daft.ie Sales Report released today by Ireland’s largest property website, Daft.ie. This is down almost half from the rate of 6.8% seen a year earlier.
Nationally, the average price of a three-bed semi-detached home in the second quarter of the year was €445,000. Listed prices are now, on average, 44% above their pre-Covid levels and just 8% below their Celtic Tiger peak.
A similar easing is evident in transaction prices. Analysis of transactions registered in the Property Price Register and matched to the Daft.ie database suggests that prices rose by 3.2% in the year to June – the slowest rate of increase since 2023.
In quarterly terms, transaction prices rose by just 0.6% between March and June. The typical gap between the initial listed price and the ultimate transaction price – a measure of market heat – narrowed to 5.5% nationally, down from 6.8% a year earlier, as competition between buyers eased.
Commenting on the report, its author Ronan Lyons, Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, said:
“The defining theme of the second quarter is a broad-based slowdown in price inflation – but it is far from uniform. We are seeing a genuinely two-speed market: cooling in and around the cities, where supply is at last recovering and competition between buyers is easing, but still running hot across much of rural Ireland, where availability remains acutely tight. In Dublin in particular, transaction prices have actually begun to edge down, the first annual fall in over two years.
“What is striking this quarter is where the activity is coming from. In the year to March, the number of homes changing hands rose by just over 3%, but that growth was driven entirely by newly built homes, sales of which were up 17%. The second-hand market – still by far the largest potential source of supply – is effectively stuck.
“New construction is hugely important, and the country needs to be building well above 60,000 homes a year, not under 40,000. But new-builds alone cannot rebalance the market. That has to come from greater churn among the 1.4 million owner-occupied homes in the country – most likely as more owners roll off the fixed-rate mortgages taken out during the rate shock of the early 2020s. Until second-hand supply responds, overall activity will remain well below what a healthy market requires.”