Median house price in Dundalk stands at over €300k
The county wide median house price for Louth now stands at €320,000
The median house price for houses sold with the Dundalk Eircode A91 in October 2024 was €302,500, according to figures released by the CSO (Central Statistics Office).
The county wide median house price for Louth now stands at €320,000.
Of the 68 houses sold in Dundalk in October, 32 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 32 to former owner-occupiers and 4 were to non occupiers.
Forty-six of these houses were existing builds while twenty-two were new homes.
The median price of the new houses sold was €380,000 and the median price of existing houses sold in October was €257,500.
In Drogheda, the median price of residential properties sold in A92: Drogheda in October 2024, was €340,000.
Twenty-one of the houses sold were new houses and eighty-one were existing. The median price for the new houses sold was €375,000 while for existing houses it was €302,000.
Nationally, the Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) increased by 9.7% in the 12 months to October 2024, with prices in Dublin rising by 10.4% and prices outside Dublin up by 9.2%.
In October 2024, 4,881 dwelling purchases by households at market prices were filed with the Revenue Commissioners, up by 6.0% when compared with the 4,604 purchases in October 2023.
The median price of a dwelling purchased in the 12 months to October 2024 was €350,000.
The lowest median price for a dwelling in the 12 months to October 2024 was €179,000 in Leitrim, while the highest median price was €645,000 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.
Outside Dublin, house prices were up by 9.4% and apartment prices increased by 5.9%. The region outside of Dublin that saw the largest rise in house prices was the Border (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, and Sligo) at 14.4%, while at the other end of the scale, the Mid-East (Kildare, Louth, Meath, and Wicklow) saw a 7.5% rise.