Median house price in Dundalk soars to €315k

The median house price for houses sold with the Dundalk Eircode A91 in November 2024 was €315,000, according to figures released by the CSO (Central Statistics Office) in their Residential Property Price Index report.

The county wide median house price for Louth now stands at €324,319.

Of the 76 houses sold in Dundalk in November, 24 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 42 to former owner-occupiers and 10 were to non occupiers.

Fifty-two of these houses were existing builds while twenty-four were new homes. 

The median price of the new houses sold was €372,499 and the median price of existing houses sold in November was €285,500.

In Drogheda, the median price of residential properties sold in A92: Drogheda in November 2024, was €342,000.

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Twenty-eight  of the houses sold were new houses and fifty were existing. The median price for the new houses sold was €372,500 while for existing houses it was €295,000.

Nationally, outside Dublin, house prices were up by 9.5% and apartment prices increased by 5.8%. The region outside of Dublin that saw the largest rise in house prices was the Border (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan, and Sligo) at 13.8%, while at the other end of the scale, the Mid-East (Kildare, Louth, Meath, and Wicklow) saw a 6.5% rise.

In November 2024, 4,443 dwelling purchases by households at market prices were filed with the Revenue Commissioners, a decrease of 3.8% when compared with the 4,618 purchases in November 2023.

Households paid a median or mid-point price of €350,000 for a residential property in the 12 months to November 2024. The lowest median price paid for a dwelling was €180,000 in both Leitrim and Longford, while the highest was €654,999 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.