Louth house prices hit €325K – See how your area compares

The median house price for houses sold with the Dundalk Eircode A91 in January 2025 was €325,000, 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 €325,000.

Of the 63 houses sold in Dundalk in January, 28 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 29 to former owner-occupiers and 6 were to non occupiers.

Forty-two of these houses were existing builds while twenty-one were new homes. 

The median price of the new houses sold was €390,000 and the median price of existing houses sold in January was €278,000.

In Drogheda, the median price of residential properties sold in A92: Drogheda in January 2025, was €355,000.

Of the 117 houses sold in Drogheda in January, 63 were to first time buyer owner-occupiers; 48 to former owner-occupiers and 6 were to non occupiers.

Sixty-five of the houses sold were new houses and fifty-two were existing. The median price for the new houses sold was €387,801 while for existing houses it was €315,000.

Nationally, 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%.

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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.

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.